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The World of Glass

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Description for The World of Glass Paperback. Offering a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the 20th century, this series of related stories touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.

Eugene Wildman’s latest collection offers a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the twentieth century. In a series of related stories, The World of Glass touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War. Through his protagonist, Todd White, Wildman explores the theme of spiritual isolation in a variety of gritty settings.

Issues of identity also play a key role in Wildman’s tightly-drawn stories, with look-alikes and the erotic attraction of the “Other” featured in pieces such as “Songbird,” in which there are two Juliets, ... Read more

The stories in The World of Glass, though classic in the deepest sense, are also, in their varied way, distinctive and contemporary. This first-rate collection is the work of a powerful and accomplished writer.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268019716
SKU
V9780268019716
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About Eugene Wildman
Eugene Wildman directs the creative writing program at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Reviews for The World of Glass
“. . . smolders with quiet grandeur.” —Chicago Reader “... Eugene Wildman, the literary sorcerer of these pages, infuses his characters and their lives and their dialogs and their environs with such realism that the medium seems to disappear, leaving in its place
here's the sorcerer at work—just its terrible and beautiful impact.” —Wings Book Review "Wildman's collection resembles life in ... Read more

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