Title:
The Penguin book of the modern American short story / edited by John Freeman.
ISBN:
9781984877802
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Physical Description:
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction / by John Freeman -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972 -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley, 1972 -- Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 -- Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / Raymond Carver, 1973 -- Flowers / Alice Walker, 1973 -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid, 1978 -- Red covertible / Louise Erdrich, 1981 -- Reencounter / Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982 -- Taking care / Joy Williams, 1982 -- Story / Lydia Davis, 1983 -- China / Charles Johnson, 1984 -- Pet milk / Stuart Dybek, 1984 -- Way we live now / Susan Sontag, 1986 -- Salvador late or early / Sandra Cisneros, 1986 -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien, 1986 -- River of names / Dorothy Allison, 1988 -- Emergency / Denis Johnson, 1991 -- Sticks / George Saunders, 1994 -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz, 1996 -- Silence / Lucia Berlin, 1998 -- Twenty-seventh man / Nathan Englander, 1998 -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff, 1998 -- Hermit's story / Rick Bass, 1998 -- A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998 -- Penthouse / Andrew Holleran, 1999 -- Fix / Percival Everett, 1999 -- Water child / Edwidge Danticat, 2000 -- American embassy / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 -- Conductor / Aleksandar Hemon, 2005 -- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / Karen Russell, 2007 -- Last thing we need / Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010 -- Paper menagerie / Ken Liu, 2011 -- Dune / Stephen King, 2011 -- Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka, 2011 -- Great silence / Ted Chiang, 2015 -- Midnight zone / Lauren Groff, 2016 -- Anyone can do it / Manuel Muñoz, 2019.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1192493851
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