Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories
Michelle Cliff
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Description for Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
A tour de force of short fiction from an acclaimed author
Everything Is Now brings together all the short fiction of Michelle Cliff, featuring fourteen new pieces as well as the stories from her two previous short fiction collections, Bodies of Water and The Store of a Million Items.
Cliff, born in Jamaica and raised both there and in New York, skillfully weaves her own experiences into her fiction, exploring race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. With stunning lyricism, intelligence, and passion, Cliff confronts the dualities of our complex world: black and white, America and the third world, past and present, femininity ... Read more Touching on such vital themes as memory, the passage of time, familial relationships, the presence of death, and the cross-influence of cultures, Michelle Cliff’s stories are broad in scope, rich in substance, and urgent in their message. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816655939
SKU
V9780816655939
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About Michelle Cliff
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Michelle Cliff has lectured at many universities and was Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of If I Could Write This in Fire (Minnesota, 2008) and of the acclaimed novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She lives in California.
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