Blue collar, white collar, no collar
Subtitle: stories of work
By: edited by Richard Ford
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780062020413
Subjects: American Short stories; Work; Fiction
Description: Features a collection of short stories about work that reveal how jobs, which have taken on increased significance during the current economic crisis, can define, frustrate, and elevate people.
Table of contents: title: Business talk  -- Max Apple; title: The gully  -- Russell Banks; title: Me and Miss Mandible  -- Donald Barthelme; title: Unjust  -- Richard Bausch; title: The working girl  -- Ann Beattie; title: Zapatos  -- T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: (I thought my father looked like FDR)  -- George Chambers; title: The world of apples  -- John Cheever; title: Drummond & Son  -- Charles D'Ambrosio; title: The writers' trade  -- Nicholas Delbanco; title: Edison, New Jersey  -- Junot Díaz; title: Delivering  -- Andre Dubus; title: Sauerkraut soup  -- Stuart Dybek; title: The flaw in the design  -- Deborah Eisenberg; title: Great experiment  -- Jeffrey Eugenides; title: Under the radar  -- Richard Ford; title: The store  -- Edward P. Jones; title: Interpreter of maladies  -- Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Cowboy  -- Thomas McGuane; title: A solo song: for Doc  -- James Alan McPherson; title: Some women  -- Alice Munro; title: High lonesome  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Geese  -- ZZ Packer; title: The valiant woman  -- J. F. Powers; title: Job history  -- Annie Proulx; title: Officer friendly  -- Lewis Robinson; title: Foreign shores  -- James Salter; title: Minotaur  -- Jim Shepard; title: Pharmacy  -- Elizabeth Strout; title: Death of a traveling salesman  -- Eudora Welty; title: The deposition  -- Tobias Wolff; title: A glutton for punishment -- Richard Yates.