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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

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

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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 Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle

Author : James Nagel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807129616
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle written by James Nagel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

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

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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.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679745136
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 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 Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

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

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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

You've Got to Read this

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You've Got to Read this written by Ron Hansen and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting new anthology of short fiction chosen by thirty-five of this country's most distinguished and popular fiction writers, You've Got to Read This offers readers an unusually intimate glimpse into how accomplished writers experience literature." "Here are stories that inspired today's leading novelists and short-story writers to embark on their own writing careers, stories that took their breath away and changed them, or the way they responded to literature, forever. Oscar Hijuelos confesses his debt to the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose brilliant story "The Aleph" inspired him to become a writer himself. Mary Gordon stands in awe of what James Joyce wrought in "The Dead," and wonders how writers who come after him can equal it. Robert Coover writes movingly of Angela Carter and her mysterious story "Reflections," while Kenneth A. McClane says that "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin literally saved his life." "Some of the stories presented here are classics, like Anton Chekhov's "Gooseberries," introduced by Eudora Welty, or Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," selected by Sue Miller. Some are less well known, like Lars Gustafsson's "Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases," introduced by Charles Baxter, or John Updike's "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car," whose beauty stunned Lorrie Moore." "All were critically important to some of our finest contemporary writers - among them Annie Dillard, John Irving, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Russell Banks, Jane Smiley, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff - and their comments about the selections offer fascinating entrances into the stories. For lovers of fiction, You've Got to Read This is a treasure trove, a dazzling collection of stories passionately and imaginatively chosen."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

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

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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.

New American Stories

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

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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.

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Author : Maria Anderson (Fiction author)
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0544582888
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2018 written by Maria Anderson (Fiction author) and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

American Short Story Cycle

Author : Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423957
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book American Short Story Cycle written by Jennifer J. Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel

A Companion to the American Short Story

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119685648
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the American Short Story written by Alfred Bendixen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Latin American Short Stories

Author : Pat McNees
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Latin American Short Stories written by Pat McNees and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1974 with total page 488 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 writeres of this century, including: Jorge Louis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Garbriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, and many more. "Exhilarating. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

Author : Michael Martone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476727368
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction written by Michael Martone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists. Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618197330
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2003 written by Katrina Kenison and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.

The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories

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

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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 Best American Short Stories 2019

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
ISBN 13 : 1328465829
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2019 written by Anthony Doerr and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.