Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 13 of 15
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook

Title The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic / The New York Times Magazine ; illustrations by Sophy Hollington.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2020.
©2020

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC DECAMERON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F DECAMERON    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Summary Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
Contents Preface / Caitlin Roper -- Introduction / Rivka Galchen -- Recognition / Victor LaValle -- A blue sky like this / Mona Awad -- The walk / Kamila Shamsie -- Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin -- Clinical notes / Liz Moore -- The team / Tommy Orange -- The rock / Leila Slimani -- Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood --Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li -- Outside / Edgar Keret -- Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan -- The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner -- The morningside / Tea Obreht -- Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra -- How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu -- Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell -- If wishes was horses / David Mitchell -- Systems / Charles Yu -- The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano -- An obliging robber / Mia Couto -- Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala -- The cellar / Dina Nayeri -- That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami -- A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks -- Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon -- Origin story / Matthew Baker -- To the wall/ Esi Edugyan -- Barcelona: open city / John Wray -- One thing / Edwidge Danticat.
Subject COVID-19 (Disease) -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors).
FICTION / Disaster.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
Short stories, American (OCoLC)fst01117064
Genre/Form Short stories.
Short stories.
Added Author LaValle, Victor, 1972- Recognition.
Awad, Mona. Blue sky like this.
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973- Walk.
Tóibín, Colm, 1955- Tales from the L.A. River.
Moore, Liz, 1983- Clinical notes.
Orange, Tommy, 1982- Team.
Slimani, Leïla, 1981- Rock.
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Impatient Griselda.
Li, Yiyun, 1972- Under the magnolia.
Keret, Etgar, 1967- Outside.
Added Title New York times.
ISBN 9781982170790 (hbk.)
1982170794 (hbk.)
9781398502147 (hbk.)
1398502146 (hbk.)
-->
Add a Review