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The World to Come : Stories by Shepard, Jim is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The World to Come : Stories about?
Without A Doubt The Most Ambitious Story Writer In America, According To The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard Now Delivers A New Collection That Spans Borders And Centuries With Unrivaled Mastery. These Ten Stories Ring With Voices Belonging To--among Others--english Arctic Explorers In One Of History's Most Nightmarish Expeditions, A Young Contemporary American Negotiating The Shockingly Underreported Hazards Of Our Crude-oil Trains, Eighteenth-century French Balloonists Inventing Manned Flight, And Two Mid-nineteenth-century Housewives Trying To Forge A Connection Despite Their Isolation On The Frontier Of Settlement. In Each Case The Personal Is The Political As These Characters Face Everything From The Emotional Pitfalls Of Everyday Life To Historic Catastrophes On A Global Scale. In His Fifth Collection, Shepard Makes Each Of These Wildly Various Worlds His Own, And Never Before Has He Delineated Anything Like Them So Powerfully-- These Ten Stories Ring With Voices Belonging To--among Others--english Arctic Explorers In One Of History's Most Nightmarish Expeditions, A Young Contemporary American Negotiating The Shockingly Underreported Hazards Of Our Crude-oil Trains, Eighteenth-centu
Who reads The World to Come : Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Shepard, Jim
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781524731816
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (163 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14