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Lost in the City : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lost in the City
''Lost in the City'' is a 1992 collection of short stories about African-American life in Washington, D.C. by Pulitzer Prize winning-author Edward P. Jones. == Summary == ''Lost in the City'' is a collection of 14 stories. The author, a native of Washington,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/jones.html )〕 writes about the ordinary residents of the city: "I had read James Joyce's ''Dubliners'', and I was quite taken with what he had done with Dublin. So I set out to do the same thing for Washington, D.C. I went away to college and people have a very narrow idea of what Washington is like. They don't know that it's a place of neighborhoods, for example, and I set out to give a better picture of what the city is like--the other city."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11797-2003Oct24.html )〕 The book starts with the youngest character and ends with the oldest character.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6283/the-art-of-fiction-no-222-edward-p-jones )〕
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