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The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph. --Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review Miss Stafford's craftsmanship and her mastery of the short story form are by now so well known that it seems superfluous to praise these stories. That they are impeccably done is obvious. --Joyce Carol Oates, Book World She writes about people whom loneliness has driven slightly mad, but also about people who are secure and comforted; she explores childhood and old age, poverty and wealth, tragedy and comedy. The comedy is usually wry... but often moves one to laughter. Above all, Miss Stafford will not be hurried... To me, this book is most solidly achieved. --John Wain, New York Review Of Books Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this collection of thirty stories includes some of Jean Stafford's best short fiction from the period 1944-1968. Including such favorites as In the Zoo, Children Are Bored on Sunday, and Beatrice Trueblood's Story, the collection offers the work of this popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of readers and critics.
Hardcover:
9780374126322, titled "The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford" | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1992), cover price $30.00 | also contains The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | About this edition: The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature.
Paperback:
9781138797260 | Routledge, December 19, 2014, cover price $52.95
Product Description: The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste. While research on waste management has previously focused on finding technological solutions to the problem, this book uniquely examines the social and cultural views of waste, shedding new light on the topic by emphasising the consumer perspective throughout...read more
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9781138797253 | Routledge, December 16, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.
Paperback:
9780373642021, titled "Combat Zone" | Gold Eagle, October 1, 1995, cover price $3.50 | also contains Combat Zone | About this edition: To protect American trade policies with Mexico, Adolfo Valdez has organized commando-style hit teams to assassinate U.
Product Description: Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everything trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. . . . If it is good, you ll find out. If it s not, throw it out the window ? (TE 2012) Interestingly, this critical view of waste (or trash) can be contrasted with an opposing observation by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who once famously said that the waste basket is the writer s best friend...read more
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9781443841900 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, December 1, 2012, cover price $118.95 | About this edition: Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everything trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
Product Description: Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems--the local and the global, the economic and the ecological, the historical and the contemporary--and shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies...read more
Hardcover:
9780262017992 | Mit Pr, September 28, 2012, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses.
Paperback:
9780262517829 | Mit Pr, September 28, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses.
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9783039115532 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 16, 2010, cover price $64.95
Miscellaneous:
9780737745955 | 1 edition (Greenhaven Pr, March 6, 2009), cover price $0.04 | also contains Recycling
Library:
9780737743500 | Greenhaven Pr, March 6, 2009, cover price $38.45
Product Description: These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves...read more
Hardcover:
9780374126322 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1992), cover price $30.00 | also contains Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption: Reflections on Consumer Waste | About this edition: The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature.
Paperback:
9780374529932 | Revised edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 14, 2005), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day.
9780292711457 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature.
An exploration of the importance of trash in American social history describes the virtual nonexistence of trash before the twentieth century during a time when every scrap had a use and discusses the rise of the culture of disposability and its long-term implications. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9780805048308 | Metropolitan Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Traces the rise of mass consumption over reuse and the accompanying rise in the volume of garbage created
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9780805065121 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the importance of trash in American social history describes the virtual nonexistence of trash before the twentieth century during a time when every scrap had a use and discusses the rise of the culture of disposability and its long-term implications.
9780756774448 | Diane Pub Co, February 1, 1999, cover price $16.00
Product Description: To protect American trade policies with Mexico, Adolfo Valdez has organized commando-style hit teams to assassinate U.S. businessmen south of the border. Mack Bolan has to find Valdez, a former Special Forces soldier, who possesses skills as lethal as Bolan's and is a formidable enemy in jungle combat...read more
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9780373642021 | Gold Eagle, October 1, 1995, cover price $3.50 | also contains Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption: Reflections on Consumer Waste | About this edition: To protect American trade policies with Mexico, Adolfo Valdez has organized commando-style hit teams to assassinate U.
Product Description: Why study Rubbish? What is Catastrophe Theory? And what is the connection between the two? In this book Michael Thompson tells the story of an intellectual journey from the one to the other; and points the way to a general theory of the 'social landscape...read more
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9780192176585 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 13, 1979, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Why study Rubbish?
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