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Love In The Time Of America

Love In The Time Of America

Matt Snee

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Editorial:
Venus Comics
Año de edición:
2026
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798295692864
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This thought-provoking short story collection explores diverse and complex forms of love across time.Two teen boys infatuated with science fiction fall in love with each other at a summer camp in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Hollywood superstar cowboy John Wayne kidnaps a Black infant he discovers in a dumpster. The daughter of a rightwing talkshow host is suddenly, woefully unwed and pregnant. And a young American man finds the woman of his dreams in a near-future Tokyo that’s floating on balloons above the rising seas...In these four stories and another, Americans from varying backgrounds and in different time periods all find themselves at the mercy of their need for love. But despite the paradisiacal promise of American liberty, each one of them finds that everything has a price...'Love In the Time of America is a bold, emotionally layered, and thought-provoking collection that explores love, identity, morality, and cultural fragmentation across different moments in American life.'-Laura Flavin, Goodreads review 6

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