(Ebook) American Lives A Reader 1st Edition by Alicia Christensen, Tobias Wolff ISBN 080323483X 9780803234833

(Ebook) American Lives A Reader 1st Edition by Alicia Christensen, Tobias Wolff ISBN 080323483X 9780803234833

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ISBN 10: 080323483X 
ISBN 13: 9780803234833
Author: Alicia Christensen, Tobias Wolff

Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called “splendid” by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. 

In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles tells how, for his Uncle Fred, a particular “Hard Luck Suit” imparted misfortune. Brenda Serotte describes a Turkish grandmother who made her living reading palms, interpreting cups, and prescribing poultices for the community. In “Son of Mr. Green Jeans,” Dinty W. Moore views fatherhood through the lens of pop culture. Janet Sternburg’s Phantom Limb muses on the dilemmas of a child caring for a parent. Whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, these glimpses into singular American lives come together in a richly textured, colorful patchwork quilt of American life.

(Ebook) American Lives A Reader 1st Table of contents:

1. "Long Live the Red Terror!" by Fan Shen

2. "Moving Water, Tucson" by Peggy Shumaker

3. "Winter 1997" by Laurie Alberts

4. "The Weight of Spoons" by Charles Barber

5. "Hard Luck Suit" by John Skoyles

6. "Fortuna" by Brenda Serotte

7. "The Boys of Summer" by Marvin V. Arnett

8. Excerpt from "Winter" by Ted Kooser

9. "Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers" by Dinty W. Moore

10. "Good, Alright, Fine" by Eli Hastings

11. "Acting" by Dinah Lenney

12. "And There Fell a Great Star" by Natalia Rachel Singer

13. "Not Coming Out" by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

14. Excerpt from "Phantom Limb" by Janet Sternburg

15. "Alternatives, 1979" by Mary Felstiner

16. Excerpt from "Leaving Home" by Leonora Brody

17. "Pneumonia" by Floyd Skloot

18. "This Old House" by Mary Clearman Blew

19. "The Last Best Place" by Bill Roorbach

20. "The Names of the Earth" by William Least Heat-Moon

21. "The Book of My Mother" by Carolyn See

22. "The Education of a Stewardess" by Joyce Reiser Kornblatt

23. "Where We Live" by Lee Martin

24. "The Unwritten History" by Kim Barnes

25. "Reunion" by Mark Spragg

26. "Letter from the Old South" by Alice Walker

27. "The Fourth of July" by Frank McCourt

28. "Becoming an American" by Eva Hoffman

29. "Lost in Translation" by David Sedaris

30. "A Change of Heart" by Rick Bass

31. "The Thing About My Father" by Sue William Silverman

32. "A Different Kind of Death" by Donald Antrim

33. "The Only Living Boy in New York" by Colson Whitehead

34. "The Best of Times" by Jo Ann Beard

35. "Fugue" by Lucy Grealy

36. "Body Language" by Mary Karr

37. "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" by Robert Olen Butler

38. "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" by Alan Sillitoe

39. "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard

40. "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

41. "The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf

42. "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

43. "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift

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