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The Penguin book of the modern American short story

Modern American short story (portion title)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977- (author.). Allison, Dorothy 1949- (author.). Bambara, Toni Cade (author.). Bass, Rick 1958- (author.). Berlin, Lucia (author.). Carver, Raymond 1938-1988 (author.). Chiang, Ted (author.). Cisneros, Sandra (author.). Díaz, Junot 1968- (author.). Danticat, Edwidge 1969- (author.). Davis, Lydia (author.). Dybek, Stuart 1942- (author.). Englander, Nathan (author.). Erdrich, Louise (author.). Everett, Percival (author.). Freeman, John 1974- (editor.). Groff, Lauren (author.). Hemon, Aleksandar 1964- (author.). Holleran, Andrew (author.). Johnson, Charles 1948- (author.). Johnson, Denis 1949-2017 (author.). Kincaid, Jamaica (author.). King, Stephen 1947- (author.). Lahiri, Jhumpa (author.). Le Guin, Ursula K. 1929-2018 (author.). Liu, Ken 1976- (author.). Muñoz, Manuel 1972- (author.). O'Brien, Tim 1946- (author.). Otsuka, Julie 1962- (author.). Paley, Grace (author.). Russell, Karen 1981- (author.). Saunders, George 1958- (author.). Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904-1991 (author.). Sontag, Susan 1933-2004 (author.). Walker, Alice 1944- (author.). Watkins, Claire Vaye (author.). Williams, Joy 1944- (author.). Wolff, Tobias 1945- (author.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 1984877801
ISBN: 9781984877802
Physical Description: print
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

ǂt Introduction / ǂr by John Freeman -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972 -- ǂt A conversation with my father / ǂr Grace Paley, 1972 -- ǂt The ones who walk away from Omelas / ǂr Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 -- ǂt Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / ǂr Raymond Carver, 1973 -- ǂt The flowers / ǂr Alice Walker, 1973 -- ǂt Girl / ǂr Jamaica Kincaid, 1978 -- ǂt The red convertible / ǂr Louise Erdrich, 1981 -- ǂt The reencounter / ǂr Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982 -- ǂt Taking care / ǂr Joy Williams, 1982 -- ǂt Story / ǂr Lydia Davis, 1983 -- ǂt China / ǂr Charles Johnson, 1984 -- ǂt Pet milk / ǂr Stuart Dybek, 1984 -- ǂt The way we live now / ǂr Susan Sontag, 1986 -- ǂt Salvador late or early / ǂr Sandra Cisneros, 1986 -- ǂt The things they carried / ǂt Tim O'Brien, 1986 -- ǂt River of names / ǂr Dorothy Allison, 1988 -- ǂt Emergency / ǂr Denis Johnson, 1991 -- ǂt Sticks / ǂr George Saunders, 1994 -- ǂt Fiesta, 1980 / ǂr Junot Díaz, 1996 -- ǂt Silence / ǂr Lucia Berlin, 1998 -- ǂt The twenty-seventh man / ǂr Nathan Englander, 1998 -- ǂt Bullet in the brain / ǂr Tobias Wolff, 1998 -- ǂt The hermit's story / ǂr Rick Bass, 1998 -- ǂt A temporary matter / ǂr Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998 -- ǂt The penthouse / ǂr Andrew Holleran, 1999 -- ǂt The fix / ǂr Percival Everett, 1999 -- ǂt Water child / ǂr Edwidge Danticat, 2000 -- ǂt The American embassy / ǂr Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 -- ǂt The conductor / ǂr Aleksandar Hemon, 2005 -- ǂt St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / ǂr Karen Russell, 2007 -- ǂt The last thing we need / ǂr Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010 -- ǂt The paper menagerie / ǂr Ken Liu, 2011 -- ǂt The dune / ǂr Stephen King, 2011 -- ǂt Diem perdidi / ǂr Julie Otsuka, 2011 -- ǂt The great silence / ǂr Ted Chiang, 2015 -- ǂt The midnight zone / ǂr Lauren Groff, 2016 -- ǂt Anyone can do it / ǂr Manuel Muñoz, 2019.