Best of Times, Worst of Times : : Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age / / ed. by Wendy Martin, Cecelia Tichi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bender, Aimee,; Bissell, Tom,; Bukowski, Charles,; Díaz, Junot,; Eggers, Dave,; Erdrich, Louise,; Fountain, Ben,; Franklin, Tom,; Hempel, Amy,; Jen, Gish,; July, Miranda,; Lahiri, Jhumpa,; Lethem, Jonathan,; Martin, Wendy,; Mason, Bobbie Ann,; Mosley, Walter,; Packer, Zz,; Percy, Benjamin,; Saunders, George,; Silver, Marisa,; Straight, Susan,; Thompson, Jean,; Tichi, Cecelia,; Updike, John,; Wallace, David Foster,; Wolff, Tobias,
• HerausgeberIn: Martin, Wendy,; Tichi, Cecelia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as “The New Gilded Age,” a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• All in the Family
• 1.Your Mother and I
• 2. The Ballad of Duane Juarez
• 3. In the American Society
• 4. Gogol
• 5. Refresh, Refresh
• 6. Smorgasbord
• Shifting Identities
• 7. How to Date a Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)
• 8. In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
• 9. Metamorphosis
• 10. Think
• Locations and Dislocations
• 11. Expensive Trips Nowhere
• 12. Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera
• 13. Shiloh
• 14. COMMCOMM
• 15. Mines
• Across Divides
• 16. Skinless
• 17. View from a Headlock
• 18. Brownies
• 19. Pie of the Month
• Workdays and Nightshifts
• 20. A Day
• 21. Scales
• 22. Something That Needs Nothing
• 23. Equal Opportunity
• 24. The Passenger
• About the Editors