The middleman and other stories / Bharati Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukherjee, Bharati.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

197 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1988]

Summary:

Bharati Mukherjee's work has established her as a remarkable voice of immigrant America, and The Middleman and Other Stories, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. In these eleven beautifully wrought stories, Bharati Mukherjee illuminates an entire new world of people in migration, spiritual and cultural, that has transformed the meaning of "America." An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into the center of a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, yet glowing with the energy and exuberance of a society remaking itself.

Contents:

The middleman

A wife's story

Loose ends

Orbiting

Fighting for the rebound

The tenant

Fathering

Jasmine

Danny's girls

Buried lives

The management of grief.

ISBN:

0802110312 :

0802136508

OCLC:

17412386