Author: T. D. JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780988249790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
Author: John FreemanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984877828
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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 Best American Short Stories of the Century
Author: John UpdikePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395843673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Short Story America
Author: T. D. JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780988249790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
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.
Sudden Fiction
Author: Robert ShapardPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Author: Katrina KenisonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Short Story America Anthology
Author: Short Story AmericaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615471686
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Inaugural First Edition
Short Story America
Author: T D JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781792389979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Short Story America is like opening a window on a blooming spring garden following a long cold winter," writes author and O. Henry Magazine editor Jim Dodson about the great short stories that fill the volumes of fiction in the Short Story America series. As with the previous six volumes of short stories in the eclectic Short Story America tradition, these 35 new stories by today's authors touch the themes of the human condition and never fail to entertain.
Short Story America
Author: Tim D. JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615686707
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Most short-story collections these days are bound by theme and/or locale, which means the days of the eclectic collection--think Vonnegut's Welcome to Monkey House, Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing, or Grace Paley's Little Disturbances of Man--are long gone. To find the intrepid fiction readers have come to love, we turn to anthologies, and no one does them better than T.D. Johnston and Short Story America. In this collection, you'll find forty-seven powerful pieces that are willing to go into just about any realm of human feeling and emotion, from bathos and pathos to humor and heart. This collection is fearless and is not at all rigid or wedded to any single style of story-telling.
An Anthology of the Short Story in 18th and 19th Century America
Author: Edward W. R. PitcherPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773478442
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
In this anthology, Dr Pitcher has illustrated and partially defined the beginnings of short fiction in America in the period before the emergence of our modern understanding of the short story. These beginnings are to be found in the gradual coming together of forms such as anecdote, fable, tall-tale and sentimental story with the increasingly diverse aspirations, images, character types, and historical incidents of a people linked by language and culture to Britain and Europe. Volume One of the anthology has the ISBN 0-7734-7842-6.