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McSweeney's Issue 56

(McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 56( )
Editor: Boyle, Claire
Contribution by: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Series title:McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Ser.
ISBN:978-1-944211-68-4
Publication Date:Jul 2019
Publisher:McSweeney's Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $28.00
Book Description:

Issue56 delivers new work from Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas, T. C. Boyle,Dantiel W. Moniz, Genevieve Hudson, Jincy Willett, to name a few, and asection of staggering fiction from emerging Nigerian writers soon to behousehold names, with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. There arebotched home invasions and perception-heightening witchcraft, disillusionedmailmen and playlists for the comatose, posthumous visits from lovers andnail-biting prison breaks. And, if...
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Book Details
Pages:264
Author Biography
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'.

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