The new world : tales / by Russell Banks.

The New World is, in the words of its author, "a carefully structured gathering of ten tales that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence, tales that describe and embrace the spiritual limits and possibilities of life in the New World". Both religious and funny, the stor...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Illinois short fiction.
Main Author: Banks, Russell, 1940-2023
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1978], ©1978.
Series:Illinois short fiction.
Physical Description:136 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Renunciation: The custodian. The perfect couple. A sentimental education. About the late Zimma (Penny) Cate. The conversion -- Transformation: The rise of the middle class. Indisposed. The caul. The adjutant bird. The new world. 
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