By Amy Gustine
"Amy Gustine's You should still Pity Us in its place is a devastating, humorous, and astonishingly frank number of tales. Gustine may be brutally sincere concerning the murky calculations, mystery desires and suppressed malice to which so much people by no means admit, now not even to ourselves."—Karen Russell
"You may still Pity Us as a substitute is an unbroken spell from first tale to final, regardless of the large diversity of matters and landscapes, sufferings and joys it explores."—Laura Kasischke
"Amy Gustine's tales pass most unlikely borders either actual and ethical: a mom trying to find her abducted son sneaks into Gaza, an Ellis Island inspector mourning his misplaced love performs God on the boundary among outdated international and new. courageous, crucial, exciting, each one tale in You may still Pity Us as an alternative takes us to these areas we've by no means dared stopover at before."—Ben Stroud
You may still Pity Us as a substitute explores a few of our hardest dilemmas: the price of heart East strife at its so much intimate point, the chance of God thought of in daily phrases, the ethical stakes of kin tasks, and the inescapable truth of mortality. Amy Gustine shows a unprecedented generosity towards her characters, instilling them with a thriving, vibrant presence.
Amy Gustine's brief fiction has seemed within the Kenyon Review, North American Review, Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, and plenty of different areas. She lives in Ohio.
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Publishing 38 f. Education 38 g. Phonograph 39 Page vi Additional Items (unannotated) 40 B. The Musical Tradition To 1800 43 1. Reference Works 43 2. General Studies 45 3. Individual Composers 46 C. The Cultivated Tradition In The 19th Century 48 1. Arbiters of Taste 48 2. History and Reference 48 3. Individual Composers 49 4. Musical Life in the 19th Century 50 Additional Items (unannotated) 51 D. The Cultivated Tradition In The 20th Century 52 1. 20th-Century Music in General 52 2. 20th-Century American Art Music 55 a.
Historical and Critical Studies 271 4. Words and Music 277 a. Sheet Music 277 b. General Guides and Studies 278 c. Collections with Historical Narrative 279 d. National and Regional Songs 280 e. Popular Music in Times of Conflict 281 (i) General 281 Page x (ii) American Revolution 281 (iii) Civil War 283 5. Bands and Their Music 284 6. 19th-Century Popular Music 284 7. The Genteel Tradition 285 8. Popular Music of the Stage and Screen 286 a. General Historical Works 286 b. Blacks on Stage and Screen 287 c.
Includes index. 1. Music-United States-History and criticism Bibliography. I. Jackson, Richard, 1936-II. Title. U5H7 Suppl. 78177387-9630 ISBN 0-8108-1997-X Copyright © 1988 by David Horn Manufactured in the United States of America Page iii To my mother and to the memory of my father David Horn To the memory of my mother Richard Jackson Page v Contents Preface xii A. General Works 1 1. Bibliography and Reference 1 a. Bibliographies of Music and Discographies 1 b. Bibliographies of Music Literature 3 c.
