| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
342 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The falling girl / Dino Buzzati -- Death of the right fielder / Stuart Dybek -- Blackberries / Leslie Norris -- Don't you blame anyone / Julio Cortaźar -- On hope / Spencer Holst -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- The grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The other wife / Collette -- La Volpaia / Mark Helprin -- An insolvable problem of genetics / Josef Sǩvorecký -- House opposite / R.K. Narayan -- Love, Your Only Mother / David Michael Kaplan -- The laughter / Heinrich Böll -- August 25, 1983 / Jorge Luis Borges -- the elephant / Slawomir Mrozėk -- Homage for Isaac Babel / Doris Lessing -- One of these days / Gabriel Garciá Maŕquez -- Welcoming the board of directors / Peter Handke -- The boy / Joyce Carol Oates -- The weather in San Francisco / Richard Brautigan -- Blue / David Brooks -- The grass-eaters / Krishnan Varma -- Preparations / Kenneth Bernard -- At the river / Patricia Grace -- The blue jar / Isak Dinesen -- Gregory / Panos Ioannides -- Iguana hunting / Hernań Lara Zavala -- Disappearing / Monica Wood -- A lover's ear / Yuan Ch'iung-ch'iung -- By the creek / Barry Yourgrau -- The book / Rodrigo Rey Rosa -- Facing the light / Talat Abbasi -- Lost keys / Paul Milenski -- Arrest me / Denis Hirson -- Orion / Jeanette Winterson -- The verb "to kill" / Luisa Valenzuela -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- Bigfoot stole my wife / Ron Carlson -- Mr. and Mrs. Martins / Edla van Steen -- Di Grasso / Isaac Babel -- the street-sweeping show / Feng Jicai -- Courtly vision / Bharati Mukherjee -- The model / Bernard Malamud -- Terminal / Nadine Gordimer -- Emilie plead choose one egg / Paulé Bartoń -- There's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella / Fernano Sorrentino -- Family Album / Siv Cedering -- The last days of a famous mime / Peter Carey -- The shoe breaker / Daniel Boulanger -- Katya / Sergei Dovlatov -- Looking for a rain god / Bessie Head -- The school / Donald Barthelme / The fifth story / Clarice Lispector -- Tancredi / Barbara Alberti -- Las Papas / Julio Ortega -- The black dog / J. Bernlef -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- The explosion in the parlor / Bai Xiao-yi. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Shapard, Robert, 1942-
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Thomas, James, 1946-
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| ISBN |
039302718X: $22.95 ($27.95 Can.) |
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9780393027181 |
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