Title:
The Penguin book of the modern American short story
Author:
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
ISBN:
9781984877802
Physical Description:
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction / A conversation with my father / The ones who walk away from Omelas / Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / The flowers / Girl / The red covertible / The reencounter / Taking care / Story / China / Pet milk / The way we live now / Salvador late or early / The things they carried / Tim O'Brien, 1986 -- River of names / Emergency / Sticks / Fiesta, 1980 / Silence / The twenty-seventh man / Bullet in the brain / The hermit's story / A temporary matter / The penthouse / The fix / Water child / The American embassy / The conductor / St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / The last thing we need / The paper menagerie / The dune / Diem perdidi / The great silence / The midnight zone / Anyone can do it
Abstract:
"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.
Genre:
Added Author:
