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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by Z. Z. Packer
ISBN: 1573223786
ISBN-13: 9781573223782
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Stories by an award-winning young American writer, many of them about young black women struggling to survive. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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"Highly personal yet socio-politically acute: a debut collection that cuts to the bone of human experience and packs a lasting wallop."
-- Kirkus
"Young writers, naturally enough, write about young characters. DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is not really limited by this. Instead, there is a sense of a talented writer testing and pushing at those limits, ringing as many changes as possible within her fictional world. It is a world already populated by clamoring, sorrowing, eminently knowable people, and with the promise of more to come." -- Jean Thompson
-- New York Times Book Review
"...DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is an intelligent and memorable meditation on what it means to be a victim. Although each of the stories shows the importance of race, they all challenge the assumptions that to be black must mean feeling like a loser, and that feeling like a loser is always caused by being black....The central characters themselves are fully alive, and each story shows that race is only one element in their sense of themselves as people apart. Packer can be very funny...[A]t her best, Packer combines her political vision with an impressive lightness of touch." -- Emily Wilson
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published date: 2004
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 272
Publisher's Notes
In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters finds themselves starving in Japan.
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[ Edition: reprint ]. Good Condition. Publisher: Riverhead Trade Pub Date: 2/3/2004 Binding: Paperback Pages: 288 [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] ( more information) Offered by BookHolders (United States)
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Riverhead Trade, 2004-02-03. Paperback. Very Good. This is a softcover(paperback) book. In very good condition, a nice, clean book!! ( more information) Offered by The Book Center (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books. Good. 2004. Trade Paperback. 1573223786 Crisp, clean, bright, no marks, rear cover torn off and taped on, no creases in spine, tight straight binding. Digital image available on request. . ( more information) Offered by Books & Collectibles (United States)
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Riverhead Trade. PAPERBACK. 1573223786 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save with us at kjcactusbooks! . Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Kjcactusbooks (United States)
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New York: Riverhead Books. Very Good: Light shelfwear to covers.. 2004. First Edition Thus. Paperback: Trade PB. ( more information) Offered by All Booked Up (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004. A bright, lightly used copy. No reading creases or cosmetic blemishes. Cover slightly faded at edges. Clean, unmarked text.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Small Octavo. ( more information) Offered by Book-bye-Book (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004. Soft Cover. New. ( more information) Offered by Veda's Books N More (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; aside for remainder mark on bottom of book; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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NY: Riverhead Books. VG in softcover. 2003. trade PB. ( more information) Offered by Books End (United States)
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Riverhead Books, 2004. Paperback. Good+. 7.96 x 5.1 x 0.76. "Nice Tight Clean copy ! 2 bent page tips. 272 pages. . ISBN: 1573223786. ( more information) Offered by BookScene (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004 Remainder line to bottom edge, light sunning to covers, minor browning to pages, tight.. Paperback. Very Good +. ( more information) Offered by Burke's Book Store (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004 Trade Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by Book Castle (United States)
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Riverhead Trade, 2004-02-03. Paperback. Acceptable. Heavy edge and corner wear. Creases to cover. Creased spine. Remainder mark. Break in spine on page 77. Pages still readable. ( more information) Offered by Half Price Books, Inc. (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004. 5 x 8 trade paperback book. White lettering on the blue and black spine and cover. 265 pages. 2nd Printing. Front cover crease, very light soil and wear. Very Good + condition.. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ( more information) Offered by Connie Popek, Bookseller (United States)
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Riverhead Trade. As New 2004. Paperback. Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases. There is slight edgewear over all. Fiction. ; 0.76 x 7.96 x 5.1 Inches; 265 pages; An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart. In the title story (published in the New Yorker's summer 2000 Debut Fiction issue), a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her--black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian--to stop "pretending," when she is sure that "pretending" is what got her this far. "Speaking in Tongues" describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up. Looking around the Montgomery Greyhound station, she wonders if it has changed much since the Reverend King's days. She "tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have to. All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, so familiar to her hand that she could use it with her eyes shut. This is a debut not to miss. . ( more information) Offered by kbooks (Canada)
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New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Trade paperback. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. ( more information) Offered by About Books Inc. (United States)
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Riverhead Trade, 2004 Paper Back. Remainder. ( more information) Offered by Landing Bookstore & Newsstand (United States)
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BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP. 2004. TRADE PAPERBACK. GOOD CONDITION. ( more information) Offered by Montclair Book Center (United States)
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Riverhead Books, 2004 This book is in fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Pages 65/66 have a corner crease. It doesn't appear to have ever been read. The cover has minor bumps and scuffs.. Soft Cover. Fine. ( more information) Offered by visionarybook (United States)
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New York: Riverhead Books, (2004.) . 1st trade paperback printing. . Very near fine in blue wrappers. . Very highly praised first collection of stories by this young African American writer, acerbic, funny, edgy and compassionate underneath - a New York Times Notable Book. John Updike stated 'her prose is vivid and often comic ... her vision sizzles and fizzles.' 265 pp. A Granta 2007 author. ( more information) Offered by bookfever.com (United States)
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Riverhead; Near Fine. 2003. Trade PB; 1st Printing. 1573223786 . New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. ; The book form of this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree. ; 8vo; 265 pages . ( more information) Offered by IndyBook Lady (United States)
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Riverhead; Near Fine. 2003. Trade PB; 1st Printing. 1573223786 . New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. ; The book form of this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree. ; 8vo; 265 pages . ( more information) Offered by IndyBook Lady (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 2003. 265 pgs; cover sl wear around edges. ISBN: 1-57322-378-6. Paperback. Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FICTION SHORT STORIES SINGLE AUTHOR AFRO AMERICANS YOUNG WOMEN. ( more information) Offered by Highway Book Shop (Canada)
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