Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of twenty-three stories compiled from the last ten editions of Prize Stories published during the 1970's.
Author: Jefferson R. Cowie
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1459604237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore - makes new sense of the '70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from the optimism of New Deal America to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present. Stayin' Alive takes us from the factory floors of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Detroit to the Washington of Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Cowie connects politics to culture, showing how the big screen and the jukebox can help us understand how America turned away from the radicalism of the '60s and toward the patriotic promise of Ronald Reagan. He also makes unexpected connections between the secrets of the Nixon White House and the failings of the George McGovern campaign, between radicalism and the blue-collar backlash, and between the earthy twang of Merle Haggard's country music and the falsetto highs of Saturday Night Fever. Cowie captures nothing less than the defining characteristics of a new era. Stayin' Alive is a book that will forever define a misunderstood decade.
Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780385181150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →20 stories representing contemporary American short fiction include Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing," Joyce Carol Oates' "My Warszawa," Wright Morris' "Victrola", John Updike's "The City" and stories by promising new talents.
Author: J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-09-12
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 030782375X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Author: Kate Bird
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781771642408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Vancouver in the Seventies presents 149 exclusive photos from the Vancouver Sun's extensive collection along with fascinating essays."--
Author: William Abrahams
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 1988-08
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780385241847
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Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780385188555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Annual publications of The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories is always a highlight of the literary season. Here is the finest of contemporary American short fiction--twenty stories representing not only established writers but promising new talent as well.
Author: William Abrahams
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780385194785
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction.”—The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1985 gathers 21 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Stories include: Jane Smiley “Lily” (first prize, jointly awarded) Stuart Dybek “Hot Ice” (first prize, jointly awarded) Ann Beattie “In the White Night” Helen Norris “The Quarry” Susan Minot “Lust” Claude Koch “Bread and Butter Questions” Wright Morris “Glimpse into Another Country” Louise Erdrich “Saint Marie” R. C. Hamilton “Da Vinci Is Dead” Joseph McElroy “Daughter of the Revolution” Steve Heller “The Crow Woman” Ward Just “About Boston” Tobias Wolff “Sister” Gloria Norris “Holding On” Peter Cameron “Homework” Ilene Raymond “Taking a Chance on Jack” Eric Wilson “The Axe, the Axe, the Axe” Joyce Carol Oates “The Seasons” Rolaine Hochstein “She Should Have Died Hereafter” Josephine Jacobsen “The Mango Community” John Updike “The Other”
Author: William Abrahams
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780385231558
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