| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
311 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Short stories by American and foreign writers. In Teresa Svoboda's Sundress, homeless people occupy a house whose owners are on holiday, and the neighbors like it. |
| Contents |
My life as a bat / Margaret Atwood -- Underwater / Luis Arturo Ramos -- Grandma's tales / Andrew Lam -- The flowers / Alice Walker -- The liberation of Rome / Robin Hemley -- What he was like / William Maxwell -- Sundress / Terese Svoboda -- Out on bail / Denis Johnson -- The writers' model / Molly Giles -- On the rope / Mark Richard -- We meet at last / David Leavitt -- Flying / Stephen Dixon -- Alvin Jones's ignorant wife / Margaret Broucek -- The unlikely origin of metaphor / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- War and peace / Thomas McGuane -- Tergvinder's stone / W.S. Merwin -- Videotape / Don DeLillo -- Scheherazade / Charles Baxter -- Jacob's chicken / Milos Macourek -- Deep end / Charlotte Painter -- Sister Francetta and the pig baby / Kenneth Bernard -- The flood / Joy Harjo -- Doves / Ursula Hegi -- The Tablecloth of Turin / Ron Carlson -- Where you live now / Mary Swan -- I owned Vermont / Bret Lott -- The I is never alone / Marcel Marien -- Sketch / Clarence Major -- We bad / Salarrue (Salazar Arrue) -- Relic / Robert Olen Butler -- A bar in Brooklyn / Andrei Codrescu -- Blue hair / Michael Martone -- Emiko's garden / Sylvia Watanabe -- The visitation / Fernando Sorrentino -- Cartography / Lynn Grossman -- The fun house / Sherman Alexie -- Crossing to Abbassiya / Allen Hibbard -- To be Horst / Mitch Berman -- Ten miles west of Venus / Judy Troy -- Dreaming Geronimo / William deBuys -- Dead weight / Mario Roberto Morales -- Waiting for the broken horse / Allen Woodman -- The monument / Pagan Kennedy -- The birthday cake / Daniel Lyons -- That changes everything / Cathryn Alpert -- The senora / Dagoberto Gilb -- Graceful exits / Traci L. Gourdine -- Flatland / Richard Plant -- Arnie's test day / Barry Peters -- F.O.B. flicker / Merrill Gilfillan -- The fish / Steve Adams -- A simple death / Yahya Gharagozlou -- The naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell -- Murder, mystery / Bruce Holland Rogers -- Giving it away / Shelley Hunt -- How one becomes the other / Lee K. Abbott -- The cranes / Peter Meinke -- Symphony / Pam Houston -- Silver arrows / Barry Yourgrau -- The cat was dead / Glen Weldon |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Shapard, Robert, 1942-
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Thomas, James, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0393038300 |
|
9780393038309 |
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0393313425 paperback |
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9780393313420 paperback |
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