You've got to read this : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe /
You've got to read this : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe /
edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard.
- New York : Harper Perennial, c1994.
- x, 630 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Thirty-five authors choose their favorite stories and they explain why. From Chekhov's Gooseberries to Mary Caponegro's The Star Cafe.
0060553588 : $30.00 ($42.00 Can.) 9780060553586 0060982020 (pbk.) : $15.00 9780060982027 (pbk.)
94014460
Short stories.
Short story.
PN 6120.2 / Y67 1994
813/.0108
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.
Thirty-five authors choose their favorite stories and they explain why. From Chekhov's Gooseberries to Mary Caponegro's The Star Cafe.
0060553588 : $30.00 ($42.00 Can.) 9780060553586 0060982020 (pbk.) : $15.00 9780060982027 (pbk.)
94014460
Short stories.
Short story.
PN 6120.2 / Y67 1994
813/.0108