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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Hardcover - 2003

by ZZ Packer

With stories in The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and in The Best American Short Stories, 2000, and as the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, ZZ Packer has already achieved what most writers only dream about-all prior to publication of her first book.

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. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking debut-fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new American voice.


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With stories in "The New Yorker"'s debut fiction issue and in "The Best American Short Stories, 2000," and as the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, ZZ Packer has already achieved what most writers only dream about-all prior to publication of her first book.
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. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when "Seventeen" magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work. "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" is a striking debut-fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new American voice.

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  • Title Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
  • Author ZZ Packer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 238
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
  • Date 2003-03-10
  • ISBN 9781573222341 / 1573222348
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.26 x 0.93 in (24.08 x 15.90 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002073971
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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