Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143131036 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more America is broken. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people.. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world’s most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to
. His latest book is Maps, a collection of poems. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at The New School and New York University. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of new writing about inequality in New York City today. About the Author John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual of new writing, and executive editor o
His latest book is Maps, a collection of poems. . His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual of new writing, and executive editor of Lit Hub. His book