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Title:

The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : 50 North American short stories since 1970 / edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone.

Edition:

Touchstone trade paperback edition, revised and updated second edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 652 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction--20th century.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
American fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century.
United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Canada--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction--20th century.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
American fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century.
United States--Social life and customs.
Canada--Social life and customs.
American fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Manners and customs
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
Canada
United States
1900-2099
Fiction.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Williford, Lex, 1954- editor.
Martone, Michael, editor.

Notes:

"A Touchstone book."

Contents:

The rest of her life Steve Yarbrough. Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- Caviar / T.C. Boyle -- The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros -- Relief / Peter Ho Davies -- After Rosa Parks / Janet Desaulniers -- Nilda / Junot Díaz -- The caretaker / Anthony Doerr -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- Twilight of the superheroes / Deborah Eisenberg -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill -- Winners on the pass line / Dagoberto Gilb -- Wickedness / Ron Hansen -- A real doll / A.M. Holmes -- How far she went / Mary Hood -- Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- Marie / Edward P. Jones The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Territory / David Leavitt -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The secret goldfish / David Means -- Lust / Susan Minot -- Boys / Rick Moody -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Female trouble / Antonya Nelson -- The translation / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Orientation / Daniel Orozco -- Pilgrims / Julie Orringer -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- The half-skinned steer / E. Annie Proulx -- The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- My shape / Joan Silber -- Tony's story / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- The rest of her life Steve Yarbrough.

Summary:

An updated edition of top-selected short fictional works features a spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse U.S. and Canadian authors.

ISBN:

1416532277
9781416532279

OCLC:

(OCoLC)168722158

LCCN:

2007036319

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)