Degas at the Gas Station Alan Jeffreys Are Students Being Prepared for

Are Students Being Prepared for the Technological Age

''The New York Times Book Review''

judges Thomas W

not only in the expression of deficits

outriders of a radically different political economy for our era

Degas at the Gas Station Alan Jeffreys Are Students Being Prepared forIn his latest essay collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one's life. Weaving together a charming set of autobiographical stories, Beller interrogates the randomness and contingencies that separate sadness from joy, death from life. His father escaped the Nazis, only to die in America from cancer when Beller was nine years old.