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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003)
A collection of stories by Z Z Packer

 
Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction (nominee)
"ZZ Packer's stories amuse, move, touch - and bite. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a first-rate collection."
John Barth


"The kind of brilliance for narrative that should make her peers envious and her readers very, very grateful. "
Zadie Smith


In her debut Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. The title story describes a Yale freshman's alienation as a black, motherless loner trying to come to terms with her radically unfamiliar surroundings, while 'Speaking in Tongues' follows 14-year-old church girl Tia as she runs away to the big city in search of the mother who abandoned her.

Teeming with life, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a collection that explores what it is to be human. Never neatly resolved, these provocative and unforgettable stories resonate with honesty and wry humour and introduce us to a major new talent.

 
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Hardback Editions

May 2008 : Library Binding
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: Z. Z. Packer
ISBN: 1435290046 / 9781435290044
Publisher:
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February 2004 : Library Binding
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Author(s):: Z.Z. Packer
ISBN: 1417676019 / 9781417676019 (USA edition)
Publisher: Turtleback
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May 2003 : Hardback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Today Show Book Club #11)
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 1573222623 / 9781573222624 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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February 2003 : Hardback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: Zz Packer
ISBN: 1573222348 / 9781573222341 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead (HC)
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Paperback Editions

February 2005 : Paperback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 1841955566 / 9781841955568 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK   

February 2004 : Paperback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 078654564X / 9780786545643 (USA edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books
Availability: Amazon   

February 2004 : Paperback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 1841954780 / 9781841954783 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Availability: Amazon   Amazon CA   Amazon UK   

February 2004 : Paperback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 1573223786 / 9781573223782 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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January 2003 : Paperback
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 096570257X / 9780965702577 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Availability: Amazon   

Audio Editions

February 2003 : Audio CD
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 156511759X / 9781565117594 (USA edition)
Publisher: HighBridge Company
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Kindle Editions

February 2004 : Kindle edition
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author(s):: ZZ Packer
ISBN: B000OCXGIW
Publisher: Riverhead
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