New Sudden Fiction Short Stories from America and Beyond

Name: New Sudden Fiction Short Stories from America and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780393328011

ISBN-10: 0393328015

ISBN-13: 9780393328011

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Shapard, James Thomas

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All new, with more great writers than everthese tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty storieseach under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise, whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, such as Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Teolinda Gersão, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff. Zdravka Evitmova conjures blood drops that cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Editors' Note



Other Persons



A History of Everything, Including You



The Raft



The Red Fox Fur Coat



Loving the Dead



Powder



Water Names



Berlin Wall Piece



The Rememberer



Homage



Tomorrow's Bird



The Palmist



Blood



Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear



Footnote



We Ate the Children Last



My Lawrence



Feeling Good, Feeling Fine



Pompeii



Ma, a Memoir 122



Essential Things



Seven Pieces of Severance



The Wine Doctor



In Reference to Your Recent Communications



Following the Notes



The Minimalist



I Shot the Sheriff



Before the Train and After



Rosa Blanca



The Puppies



Before and Again



A Bad Joke



Consumed



Why Men Quit: An Intellectual Inquiry



Delicate Touch



Country Miles



Scroll



Swimming for Shore



Mud



Feelers



The Party



My Kid's Dog



Power Lines



Incarnations of Burned Children



Inclusions



Good, Brother



Reply All



Escort



The Gold Lunch



doughnut Shops and Doormen



A Piece of Sky



Stolen Chocolates



Juan the Cell Phone Salesman



Nap Time



Audio Tour



Paper Slippers



Crossroad



Determinants



How I Left Ned



Moscow



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