| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 452 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
So help me / Nelson Algren -- The war in the bathroom / Margaret Atwood -- Previous condition / James Baldwin -- The state of grace / Harold Brodkey -- Aftermath of a lengthy rejection slip / Charles Bukowski -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Furious seasons / Raymond Carver -- Expelled / John Cheever -- Landing in luck / William Faulkner -- Babes in the woods / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Albergo Empedocle / E.M. Forster -- The end of the party / Graham Greene -- Because of the waters of the flood / Mark Helprin -- In our time / Ernest Hemingway -- Crazy in the stir / Chester B. Himes -- After you, my dear Alphonse / Shirley Jackson -- Territory / David Leavitt -- April in Paris / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The pig / Doris Lessing -- Cruel and barbarous treatment / Mary McCarthy -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers -- The greatest thing in the world / Norman Mailer -- Benefit performance / Bernard Malamud -- Mademoiselle Claude / Henry Miller -- A basket of strawberries / Alice Munro -- In the old world / Joyce Carol Oates -- The geranium / Flannery O'Connor -- Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley -- Such a pretty little picture / Dorothy Parker -- The day it snowed / Philip Roth -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- Flash in the pan / Irwin Shaw -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- And baby makes three / Jane Smiley -- The seraph and the Zambesi / Muriel Spark -- Oil field vignettes / Jim Thompson -- Friends from Philadelphia / John Updike -- Report on theBarnhouse Effect / Kurt Vonnegut -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The vengeance of Nitocris / Tennessee Williams. |
| Summary |
Famous writers' first works. Forty-one stories in all, some showing obvious promise, some so bad you wonder how they made it into print. An inspiration for would-be authors everywhere. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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| Added Author |
Smiley, Jane.
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Kiernan, Kathy, editor.
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Moore, Michael M., 1962-
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| ISBN |
0316492035 hardcover $24.95 ($32.50 Can.) |
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9780316492034 hardcover |
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0316492043 paperback $11.95 |
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9780316492041 paperback |
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