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The island dwellers : stories / Jen Silverman.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.I55235 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Jen, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--21st century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Japan--21st century--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2018]
- Summary:
- In this debut short-story collection a passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train stations, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan.
- ISBN:
- 9780399591495
- 0399591494
- OCLC:
- 982044097
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