Short Stories

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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480408111

<DIV><B>A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed <I>New Yorker</I> short story writer and #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling novelist.</B></DIV><DIV><BR /> Irwin Shaw was a star of the <I>New Yorker</I>&rsquo;s fiction pages in the 1930s and &rsquo;40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as &ldquo;The Eighty-Yard Run,&rdquo; a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and &ldquo;Main Currents in American Thought,&rdquo; in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw&rsquo;s writing &mdash;as demonstrated in these pages&mdash;maintains the &#160;clear-eyed &#160;moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher&rsquo;s soul.<BR /> &#160;<DIV><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></DIV></DIV>