The Resource The dinner party and other stories, Joshua Ferris
The dinner party and other stories, Joshua Ferris
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Resource Information
The item The dinner party and other stories, Joshua Ferris represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- Summary
- These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 246 pages
- Contents
-
- The stepchild
- Life in the heart of the dead
- A fair price
- The dinner party
- The valetudinarian
- The pilot
- A night out
- The breeze
- Ghost town choir
- More abandon (or whatever happened to Joe Pope?)
- Fragments
- Isbn
- 9780316465953
- Label
- The dinner party and other stories
- Title
- The dinner party and other stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Ferris
- Title variation
- Dinner party and other stories
- Subject
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- trueDomestic fiction
- Shapeshifting -- Fiction
- trueSurprise
- trueFarcical fiction
- Short stories
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Marriage
- Life change events
- Marriage -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- truePersonal conduct
- Redemption
- trueShort stories
- trueLife change events
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Fiction
- Shapeshifting
- Redemption -- Fiction
- trueChange
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists
- Summary
- An anthology of short stories includes pieces previous published in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories and follows the efforts of protagonists searching for answers in the wake of surprise, violent or otherwise life-changing moments
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
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- 10556698
- Cataloging source
- YDX
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- Ferris, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
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- True
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- Marriage
- Shapeshifting
- Life change events
- Redemption
- Life change events
- Marriage
- Redemption
- Shapeshifting
- Target audience
- adult
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- stories
- Label
- The dinner party and other stories, Joshua Ferris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The stepchild
- Life in the heart of the dead
- A fair price
- The dinner party
- The valetudinarian
- The pilot
- A night out
- The breeze
- Ghost town choir
- More abandon (or whatever happened to Joe Pope?)
- Fragments
- Control code
- ocn958780053
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316465953
- Lccn
- 2016957621
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958780053
- Label
- The dinner party and other stories, Joshua Ferris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The stepchild
- Life in the heart of the dead
- A fair price
- The dinner party
- The valetudinarian
- The pilot
- A night out
- The breeze
- Ghost town choir
- More abandon (or whatever happened to Joe Pope?)
- Fragments
- Control code
- ocn958780053
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316465953
- Lccn
- 2016957621
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958780053
Subject
- trueChange
- trueCoping
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFarcical fiction
- Fiction
- Life change events
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Marriage
- Marriage -- Fiction
- truePersonal conduct
- Redemption
- Redemption -- Fiction
- Shapeshifting
- Shapeshifting -- Fiction
- Short stories
- trueShort stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
- trueSurprise
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