Ellen Litman

The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."New York Times Book Review

In twelve "pristine, entrancing" (Booklist) linked stories, Ellen Litman introduces an unforgettable cast of Russian-Jewish immigrants trying to assimilate in a new world. Tender and wryly funny, these stories trace Masha's and her fellow immigrants' struggles to find a place in a new societylonely seniors, families grappling with unemployment and depression, and young adults searching for love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393078602
• Artikelnr.: 59590848

Autorenporträt

Ellen Litman is the author of the story collection The Last Chicken in America, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and for the Young Lions Fiction Award. She has been the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and her work has appeared in Best New American Voices, Best of Tin House, American Odysseys: Writing by New Americans, Dossier, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, and other publications. Born in Moscow, she teaches writing at the University of Connecticut and lives in Mansfield.