Why Visit America

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature and Conjunctions , and in anthologies including Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions . A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the MacDowell Colony, among many others, he has an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review . Born in Michigan, he currently lives in New York City. Klappentext Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment. Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in. Zusammenfassung Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment. Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Baker, Baker Matthew
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.08.2021
• EAN: 9781526618429
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-1842-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Satire, North America, FICTION / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, North America (USA and Canada)