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The world to come : stories

Shepard, Jim (author.).

Summary: "These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale"--

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  • ISBN: 1524731803
  • ISBN: 9781524731809
  • Physical Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

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General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note: Safety tips for living alone -- Wall-to-wall connseling -- HMS terror -- Cretan love song -- The world to come -- The ocean of air -- Positive train control -- Telemachus -- Forcing joy on young people -- Intimacy.
Target Audience Note:
1240L Lexile

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Subject: Families Fiction
Genre: Short stories.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Gallitzin Public Library FIC SHE (Text) 31814300647481 GALM Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library FIC SHEPARD JIM (Text) 35740635080716 Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library SHEPARD, JIM (Text) 34455006300616 Adult Fiction Available -

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