5 edition of The middleman and other stories found in the catalog.
The middleman and other stories
Bharati Mukherjee
Published
1988
by Viking in [Markham, Ont.]
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Bharati Mukherjee. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9499.3.M77 M5x 1988b |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 197 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 197 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL2249231M |
| ISBN 10 | 0670818933 |
| LC Control Number | 89125002 |
Like the stories in her previous collection, Darkness (), the eleven stories in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Middleman and Other Stories explore, from a postcolonial perspective, the contemporary. The Middleman and Other Stories was a commercial and critical success, garnering the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Eleanor Wachtel noted in Maclean's (29 August ): "In The Middleman, Mukherjee has plunged herself into the throes of American society. In return, she offers acute insights into the clashes that mark a nonwhite.
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Alfie, an Iraqi Jew who ends up in El Salvador by way of Queens, lusts after Maria in the title story. Maria was once with President Gutierrez but is now married to a wealthy rancher and businessman/5(52). The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee “Bharati Mukherjee, in this astonishing second book of short stories, zeroes in on uneasy terrain that no one has looked at with quite so clear an eye since approximately World War II, the queasy crucible in which the American identity itself is alloyed.”.
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Another must-read from a modern master.” – Booklist (starred review) /5(). Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself 3/5(2).
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Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed. The Middleman, and Other Stories deals with the clash between Western and Third World cultures as technology and overpopulation join diverse peoples in tragicomic relationships.
“A Wife ’s Story”. The Middleman and Other Stories () is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Stories from this volume are frequently anthologized, particularly Orbiting, A Wife's Story, and The Middleman.
The short story Jasmine would later be developed into the novel Jasmine. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World).
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The middleman and other stories. [Bharati Mukherjee] -- Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spun by Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism. They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam. The Middleman Summary Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Middleman" was originally included in her second collection of short fiction, The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction.
Praise for The Middleman "The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing." —Scott Turow, The New York Times Book Review “Steinhauer proves himself an equally adept chronicler of a world in which walls have come down and the most potent powers aren’t necessarily political.
Another must-read from a modern master.”. Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer.
An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now 3/5(1). The Middleman and Other Stories, () is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Stories from this volume are frequently anthologized, particularly Orbiting, A Wife's Story, and The Middleman.Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Middleman" was originally included in her second collection of short fiction, The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction."The Middleman" is told from the perspective of Alfie Judah, an Iraqi immigrant to the U.S.
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