The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0679745130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories by : Tobias Wolff

Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.

The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330335263
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories by : Tobias Wolff

Download or read book The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 1994 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Wolff’s collection takes us from north to south, from east to west, from ocean to desert to forest, from farmstead to city, from suburb to main streets, from home to Vietnamese jungle; its diversity is as impressive as its quality. It’s a substantial achievement: an engrossing, affecting, provoking, richly satisfying volume, the magic of which will endure even when it’s lost the “contemporary” in its title’ Scotsman ‘There can be no more readable book . . . More than seven hundred pages of mesmeric story-telling, by forty-two of the best writers to have emerged from the US over the past fifteen years . . . This is a wonderful book’ Scotland on Sunday ‘In making his choice of contemporary American short stories, Tobias Wolff has remained true to what he believes is the predominantly realist strain of American fiction . . . this is a thick, satisfying volume: I can’t find a story that hits a wrong note’ Erica Wagner, The Times

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307428133
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories written by Ben Marcus and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Sea Oak by George Saunders Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Do Not Disturb by A.M. Homes The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis The Father’s Blessing by Mary Caponegro The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders by Aleksandar Hemon People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to Tell You by Gary Lutz Histories of the Undead by Kate Braverman When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri Down the Road by Stephen Dixon X Number of Possibilities by Joanna Scott Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace The Sound Gun by Matthew Derby Short Talks by Anne Carson Field Events by Rick Bass Scarliotti and the Sinkhole by Padgett Powell

The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories by : Julio Ortega

Download or read book The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories written by Julio Ortega and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the García Márquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a colleague's cellar, the Universe. Here is the haunting shades of Juan Rulfo, the astonishing anxiety puzzles of Julio Cortázar, the disquieted domesticity of Clarice Lispector. Provocative, powerful, immensely engaging, The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories showcases the ingenuity, diversity, and continuing excellence of a vast and vivid literary tradition.

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307744965
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vintage Book of American Women Writers by : Elaine Showalter

Download or read book The Vintage Book of American Women Writers written by Elaine Showalter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collection of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. From Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to Margaret Fuller to Harriet Beecher Stowe, readers will encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations. Our famous women writers, including contemporary stars like Annie Proux and Jhumpa Lahiri, are showcased in their full literary context, offering an epic overview of the canon in one monumental, dazzling volume. This landmark anthology features the best work of our best American women, and was inspired and informed by the author's groundbreaking history celebrating women writers, A Jury of Her Peers.

Contemporary Latin American Short Stories

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0449912264
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Latin American Short Stories by : Pat McNees

Download or read book Contemporary Latin American Short Stories written by Pat McNees and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1996-09-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking in its imagery, its history, and its breathtaking scope, Latin American fiction has finally come into its own throughout the world. Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century, including: Jorge Luis Borges Carlos Fuentes Julio Cortazar Miguel Angel Asturias Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Amado Octavio Paz Juan Bosch Jose Donoso Horacio Quiroga Mario Vargas Llosa Abelardo Castillo Guillermo Cabrera Infante And many more

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061661589
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by : Joyce Carol Oates

Download or read book The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776513X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by : Michael S. Harper

Download or read book The Vintage Book of African American Poetry written by Michael S. Harper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

New American Stories

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804173540
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis New American Stories by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book New American Stories written by Ben Marcus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

Bordering Fires

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307482405
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Bordering Fires by : Cristina Garcia

Download or read book Bordering Fires written by Cristina Garcia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc’a presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, Garc’a highlights historic voices such as “the godfather of Chicano literature” Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldœa, who made a powerful case for language that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho’s poem “Fish of Fleeting Skin,” from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo to Octavio Paz, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an exhilarating new vantage point on our continent–and on the best of contemporary literature. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195130855
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories written by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741151
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by : J. D. McClatchy

Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-06-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Vintage Colorado Short Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Vintage Colorado Short Stories by : James B. Hemesath

Download or read book Vintage Colorado Short Stories written by James B. Hemesath and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 13 stories that explore the Centennial State from the late nineteenth century into the early 1900s and through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War fifties.

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984877828
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by : John Freeman

Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story written by John Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.

Reading Myself and Others

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146684647X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Myself and Others by : Philip Roth

Download or read book Reading Myself and Others written by Philip Roth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interviews, essays, and articles collected in Reading Myself and Others span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it has engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed; and on baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his long interview with The Paris Review.

New Sudden Fiction

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393328011
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis New Sudden Fiction by : Robert Shapard

Download or read book New Sudden Fiction written by Robert Shapard and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAPARD/NEW SUDDEN FICTION

Flash Fiction Forward

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393328028
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Flash Fiction Forward by : James Thomas

Download or read book Flash Fiction Forward written by James Thomas and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of bite-sized tales represents the work of some of today's best fiction writers and includes Rick Moody's definition of an armoire, Lydia Davis's sojourn into the world of cats, and Dave Eggers's exploration of narrow escapes. Original.