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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

by Packer, ZZ

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ISBN 10
1573222348
ISBN 13
9781573222341
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About This Item

New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95), generally toned. Quarter grey cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The true first printing Packer's debut story collection, featuring her much anthologized story "Brownies.

Synopsis

Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick. Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere . Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decides where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight that belies her youth—she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story—ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking performance—fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new voice.

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Bookseller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
9168
Title
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author
Packer, ZZ
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
1573222348
ISBN 13
9781573222341
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
Keywords
Contemporary Literature, Short Stories, Black Writer, Feminism, Race, Racism, 21st Century Literature

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