You've got to read this : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe /
Thirty-five authors choose their favorite stories and they explain why. From Chekhov's Gooseberries to Mary Caponegro's The Star Cafe.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperPerennial,
[1994]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A mother's tale / James Agee
- Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel
- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
- The school / Donald Barthelme
- The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges
- A day in the open / Jane Bowles
- A distant episode / Paul Bowles
- The Star Cafe / Mary Caponegro
- Reflections / Angela Carter
- Cathedral / Raymond Carver
- Goodbye, my brother / John Cleever
- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens
- Pie dance / Molly Giles
- Greatness strikes where it pleases / Lars Gustafsson
- The interview / Ruth Prawer Jlabvala
- The dead / James Joyce.
- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka
- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
- The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector
- The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield
- Labor day dinner / Alice Munro
- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov
- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
- Wants / Grace Paley
- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz
- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko
- Helping / Robert Stone
- Master and man / Leo Tolstoy.
- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike
- The flowers / Alice Walker
- No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty
- Paper garden / Jerome Wilson.