The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic / The New York Times Magazine ; illustrations by Sophy Hollington.
Title:
The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic / The New York Times Magazine ; illustrations by Sophy Hollington.
ISBN:
9781398502147
9781982170790
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents:
Preface / Caitlin Roper -- Introduction / Rivka Galchen -- Recognition / Victor LaValle -- A blue sky like this / Mona Awad -- Walk / Kamila Shamsie -- Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin -- Clinical notes / Liz Moore -- Team / Tommy Orange -- Rock / Leila Slimani -- Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood --Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li -- Outside / Edgar Keret -- Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan -- Girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner -- Morningside / Tea Obreht -- Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra -- How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu -- Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell -- If wishes was horses / David Mitchell -- Systems / Charles Yu -- Perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano -- An obliging robber / Mia Couto -- Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala -- Cellar / Dina Nayeri -- That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami -- A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks -- Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon -- Origin story / Matthew Baker -- To the wall/ Esi Edugyan -- Barcelona: open city / John Wray -- One thing / Edwidge Danticat.
Summary:
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
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OCLC Number:
on1184238640
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