Foreword
In the introduction of the twentieth anniversary edition of his first short story collection, Lost in the City (1992), Edward P. Jones recalls that one of his professors at Holy Cross advised him to read James Joyce’s Dubliners. It was a book that “planted a molecular seed of envy in [him]” and mad...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | In the introduction of the twentieth anniversary edition of his first short story collection, Lost in the City (1992), Edward P. Jones recalls that one of his professors at Holy Cross advised him to read James Joyce’s Dubliners. It was a book that “planted a molecular seed of envy in [him]” and made him decide he would do for Washington, D.C. what Joyce had done for Dublin: bring its people to life on page. And just as Joyce remapped Dublin, inviting readers to see its alleys and corners and... |
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