Blue collar, white collar, no collar : stories of work /

Blue collar, white collar, no collar : stories of work /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.
Description:	xiv, 607 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Work -- Fiction. Short stories, American. Short stories, American. Work. Short stories. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8389684

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Other authors / contributors:	Ford, Richard, 1944-
ISBN:	9780062020413 (pbk.) 0062020412 (pbk.)
Summary:	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:

Business talk / Max Apple
The gully / Russell Banks
Me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme
Unjust / Richard Bausch
The working girl / Ann Beattie
Zapatos / T. Coraghessan Boyle
(I thought my father looked like FDR) / George Chambers
The world of apples / John Cheever
Drummond & Son / Charles D'Ambrosio
The writers' trade / Nicholas Delbanco
Edison, New Jersey / Junot Díaz
Delivering / Andre Dubus
Sauerkraut soup / Stuart Dybek
The flaw in the design / Deborah Eisenberg
Great experiment / Jeffrey Eugenides
Under the radar / Richard Ford
The store / Edward P. Jones
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Cowboy / Thomas McGuane
A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson
Some women / Alice Munro
High lonesome / Joyce Carol Oates
Geese / ZZ Packer
The valiant woman / J. F. Powers
Job history / Annie Proulx
Officer friendly / Lewis Robinson
Foreign shores / James Salter
Minotaur / Jim Shepard
Pharmacy / Elizabeth Strout
Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty
The deposition / Tobias Wolff
A glutton for punishment / Richard Yates.