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001 2012289710
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008 130213s2012 wau 000 1 eng d
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020 $a9781606995273 (pbk.)
020 $a1606995278 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn755704938
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050 00 $aPS3554.I92$bW48 2012
082 00 $a813/.54$223
100 1 $aDixon, Stephen,$d1936-
245 10 $aWhat is all this? :$buncollected stories /$cStephen Dixon.
260 $aSeattle, Wash. :$bFantagraphics Books ;$a[New York] :$bDistributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton,$cc2012.
300 $a565 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $aUsing the canvas of his native New York (with one significant exception that affords him the opportunity to create a furiously political fable) Dixon astutely captures the edgy madness that infects the city through the neuroses of his narrators with a style that owes as much to Neo-Realist cinema as it does to modern literature.
505 0 $aBook One: Evening -- Storm -- An outing -- Shoelaces -- Fired -- Bussed -- Getting lost -- End of a friend -- Starting again -- Argument -- Question -- Overtime -- Can't win -- Long made short -- Ass -- Chocolate sampler -- Reinsertion -- One thing -- Dawn -- Wild bird reserve -- Baby -- Ends -- What is all this? -- Produce -- Young man who read brilliant books -- Night -- Book Two: Nothing new -- Interest -- Biff -- Leaves -- Former world's greatest raw green pea eater -- Jackie -- Cleanup man -- China -- She -- Burglars -- Leader -- Good fellow -- Talk show -- Dream -- P -- Stories -- Next to nothing -- Phone -- Mr. Greene -- Piers -- Knock knock -- Neighbors -- Book Three: Contac -- Meet the natives -- Who he? -- For a quiet English Sunday -- Sex -- Killer -- Home away from home -- Pale cheeks of a butcher's boy -- Up and down the drosselgasse -- Accurate account -- Yo-yo -- No knocks -- Walt -- In memoriam.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y21st century$vFiction.