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Title Sudden fiction : American short-short stories / edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas ; with a frontistory by Robert Coover ; and afterwords, about the short-short story form by forty of America's finest writers.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : G.M. Smith, [1986]
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION SUDDEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.83 SUDDEN FICTION    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  808.83 SUDDEN    DUE 04-18-24
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Note "A Peregrine Smith book."
Contents A sudden story / frontistory by Robert Coover -- Mother / Grace Paley -- Can-can / Arturo Vivante -- Even Greenland / Barry Hannah -- The king of jazz / Donald Barthelme -- Reunion / John Cheever -- Twirler / Jane Martin -- Sunday in the park / Bel Kaufman -- Five ives / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Song on Royal Street / Richard Blessing -- Pygmalion / John Updike -- A fable / Robert Fox -- The moving / James Still -- The cliff / Charles Baxter -- No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent -- The merry chase / Gordon Lish -- Yours / Mary Robinson -- A walled garden / Peter Taylor -- Heart attack / Max Apple -- Thank you, m'am / Langston Hughes -- Popular mechanic / Raymond Carver -- Turning / Lynda Sexson -- Say yes / Tobias Wolfe -- The hit man / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- A questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon / Jack Matthews -- I see you never / Ray Bradbury -- Children of strikers / Fred Chappell -- The bank robbery / Steven Schutzman -- Tent worms / Tennessee Williams -- Sitting / H.E. Francis -- The bridge / Pamela Painter -- Dog life / Mark Strand -- The hatchet man in the lighthouse / William Peden -- Happy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dinner time / Russell Edson -- The anatomy of desire / John L'Heureux -- Class notes / Lucas Cooper -- A very short story / Ernest Hemingway -- Sunday at the zoo / Stuart Dybek -- Things I did to make it possible / Francois Camoin -- Noel / Michael Plemmons -- The personal touch / Chet Williamson -- The vertical fields / Fielding Dawson -- The visitation / Tom Whalen -- The strong man / George Garrett -- Important things / Barbara L. Greenberg -- Roth's deadman / Joe David Bellamy -- Tickits / Paul Milenski -- The Coggios / Sharyn Layfield -- How J.B. Hartley saw his father / James B. Hall -- The neighbor / Russell Banks -- Reading the paper / Ron Carlson -- Thief / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- Isla / Sandra J. Kolankiewicz -- Crossbones / Leonard Michaels -- Rosary / Robert Kelly -- The sock / Lydia Davis -- Billy's girl / Gordon Jackson -- Speed of light / Pat Rushin -- Gerald's song / Philip F. O'Connon -- Moving pictures / Charles Johnson -- Any minute mom should come blasting through the door / David Ordan -- The black queen / Barry Callaghan -- Sense of wonder, sense of awe / Craig McGarvey -- Blind girls / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The signing / Stephen Dixon -- The quail / Rolf Yngve -- Sleepy time gal / Gary Gildner -- The artichoke / Marilyn Krysl -- A lost grave / Bernard Malamud.
Subject Short stories, American.
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1925-1986.
Added Author Shapard, Robert, 1942-
Thomas, James, 1946-
Other Form: Online version: Sudden fiction. 1st ed. Salt Lake City : G.M. Smith, c1986 (OCoLC)568725136
ISBN 0879052481
9780879052485
0879052651
9780879052652
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