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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Hardcover) ... An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart.
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Amazon.com: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (9781573223782): ZZ Packer:
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DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE; ZZ Packer; Riverhead Books; Short Stories; ISBN: 1573222348 ... And yet, each of the stories in DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE, chronicling bits and pieces of the African-American experience, is extraordinary.
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Now, in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident. Packer dazzles with her command of language-surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong.
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Find Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer and other General fiction books online from Penguin Group (USA)'s online bookstore. Read more with Penguin Group (USA). ... Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.
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Long before you open Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer's voice is a wave born in mid-ocean, gathering strength, obeying the moon's pull, churning toward land, so that when you finally do turn to the first page and read the first paragraph of the first story ("Brownies"), her strong, confident voice crashes over you:
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Author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere talks with Robert Birnbaum ... The title story of her recently published short-story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, was included in The New Yorker's Debut Fiction issue in 2000, and her work has also appeared in Seventeen, Harper's, The Best American Short Stories (2000),
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Orientation games began the day I arrived at Yale from Baltimore. In my group we played heady, frustrating games for smart people. One game appeared to be charades reinterpreted by existentialists; another involved listening to rocks. Then a freshman counsellor made everyone play Trust. The idea was that ... "No way," I said.
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The Campus Reading Program is sponsoring an essay contest tied to the reading and discussion of the 2007/2008 book selection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer.
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;; Drinking Coffee Elsewhere; Click to order via Amazon or Barnes and Noble ... Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a first car seat on the emotional roller-coaster of life. Every story expresses how precious little things are. Packer ultimately understands pain and she displays the effect pain has on ordinary people.
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