Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Paperback)
| Author: Z. Z. Packer |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 1573223786
ISBN-13: 9781573223782
Sku: 33939495
Publish Date: 2/1/2004
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
288
Age Range:
22 to UP
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| Already an award-winning writer, Packer now shares her long awaited debut collection of stories which has been greeted with acclaim. |
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From the Publisher:
In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters finds themselves starving in Japan. Reprint. 200,000 first printing. |
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Stories by an award-winning young American writer, many of them about young black women struggling to survive. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
Stories by an award-winning young American writer, many of them about young black women struggling to survive. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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London Review of Books
"...DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is an intelligent and memorable meditation on what it means to be a victim. Although each of the stories shows the importance of race, they all challenge the assumptions that to be black must mean feeling like a loser, and that feeling like a loser is always caused by being black....The central characters themselves are fully alive, and each story shows that race is only one element in their sense of themselves as people apart. Packer can be very funny...[A]t her best, Packer combines her political vision with an impressive lightness of touch." - Emily Wilson 04/01/2004 New York Times Book Review
"Young writers, naturally enough, write about young characters. DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is not really limited by this. Instead, there is a sense of a talented writer testing and pushing at those limits, ringing as many changes as possible within her fictional world. It is a world already populated by clamoring, sorrowing, eminently knowable people, and with the promise of more to come." - Jean Thompson 03/16/2003
"...DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is an intelligent and memorable meditation on what it means to be a victim. Although each of the stories shows the importance of race, they all challenge the assumptions that to be black must mean feeling like a loser, and that feeling like a loser is always caused by being black....The central characters themselves are fully alive, and each story shows that race is only one element in their sense of themselves as people apart. Packer can be very funny...[A]t her best, Packer combines her political vision with an impressive lightness of touch." - Emily Wilson 04/01/2004 New York Times Book Review
"Young writers, naturally enough, write about young characters. DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is not really limited by this. Instead, there is a sense of a talented writer testing and pushing at those limits, ringing as many changes as possible within her fictional world. It is a world already populated by clamoring, sorrowing, eminently knowable people, and with the promise of more to come." - Jean Thompson 03/16/2003
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