God bless America
Subtitle: stories
By: Steve Almond
Publisher: Lookout Books, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Wilmington, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780984592234
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: A meditation on the American Dream and its discontents. In his most ambitious collection yet, Almond offers a comic and forlorn portrait of these United States: our lust for fame, our racial tensions, the toll of perpetual war, and the pursuit of romantic happiness.
Table of contents: title: God bless America --; title: Donkey greedy, donkey gets punched --; title: Hope wood --; title: Not until you say yes --; title: Shotgun wedding --; title: Tamalpais --; title: What the bird says --; title: The darkness together --; title: A Jew berserk on Christmas Eve --; title: Akedah --; title: Hagar's sons --; title: First date back --; title: A dream of sleep.