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Title State by state : a panoramic portrait of America / edited by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey.

Imprint New York : HarperPerennial ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  E169 Z83 S69 2008    Available
Description xxxiii, 572 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note "50 writers on 50 states" -- Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Preface / Matt Weiland -- Introduction / Sean Wilsey -- Alabama / George Packer -- Alaska / Paul Greenberg -- Arizona / Lydia Millet -- Arkansas / Kevin Brockmeier -- California / William T. Vollmann -- Colorado / Benjamin Kunkel -- Connecticut
Summary Collects original writings on all fifty states by leading novelists, journalists, and essayists, in a volume that includes Anthony Bourdain on New Jersey, Dave Eggers on Illinois, and Louise Erdrich on North Dakota.
Subject National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
U.S. states.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
United States -- History, Local.
United States -- History -- 21st century.
Added Author Weiland, Matt.
Wilsey, Sean.
ISBN 9780061470912 (pbk.)
0061470910 (pbk.)
9780061470905 (hbk.)
0061470902 (hbk.)