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Description for State by State
Paperback. Features a state by state celebration of America including: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, and Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island - the list goes on. At turns poignant and hysterical, and uniformly insightful, these fifty writers capture the beauty, the kitsch, the unexpected and the quintessential things that make America. There is something and someone in State by State for everyone. With a roster of bestsellers and award ... Read more
Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island - the list goes on. At turns poignant and hysterical, and uniformly insightful, these fifty writers capture the beauty, the kitsch, the unexpected and the quintessential things that make America. There is something and someone in State by State for everyone. With a roster of bestsellers and award ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
597g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061470912
SKU
V9780061470912
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Matt Weiland
Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of ... Read more
Reviews for State by State
[State by State] is a funny, moving, rousing collection, greater than the sum of its excellent parts, a convention of literary superdelegates, each one boisterously nominating his or her piece of the Republic.
New York Times Book Review This fascinating collection, inspired by guides in the 1930s and 1940s, includes original essays on each of the states ... Read more
New York Times Book Review This fascinating collection, inspired by guides in the 1930s and 1940s, includes original essays on each of the states ... Read more