Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Packer, Z. Z.

ISBN 10: 1573222348 / ISBN 13: 9781573222341

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2003

About this Item

Signed by the author, Author's first book. A finr/ finr firsdt edition, first printing.Award winning author. Stories.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573222348
• ISBN 13: 9781573222341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troupe of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters find themselves starving in Japan. 35,000 first printing.

About the Author

ZZ Packer is the author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003). Frequently published in such journals as���The New Yorker���and���Granta, she is at work on a novel,���The Thousands,���which explores the lives of former Louisiana slaves in forming a labor movement, as well as the fates of African-American "buffalo soldiers" assigned in the Southwest to battle the last Native American resistance force, the Apaches. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy in Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has taught at many institutions including Princeton, where she was a Hodder Fellow; the Michener Center at the University of Texas; Vassar College; and as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She received her education at Yale (BA), Johns Hopkins��� (MA), the University of Iowa (MFA), and Stanford as a Stegner Fellow.