The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

50 North American Stories Since 1970

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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

50 North American Stories Since 1970

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Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists. Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.

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Publisher
Scribner
Year
2012
ISBN
9781476727363
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story
  6. The School
  7. The Hermit’s Story
  8. The Fireman’s Wife
  9. The Disappeared
  10. Silver Water
  11. Caviar
  12. The Ceiling
  13. Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot
  14. Never Marry a Mexican
  15. Relief
  16. After Rosa Parks
  17. Nilda
  18. The Caretaker
  19. We Didn’t
  20. Twilight of the Superheroes
  21. Communist
  22. Tiny, Smiling Daddy
  23. Winners on the Pass Line
  24. Wickedness
  25. A Real Doll
  26. How Far She Went
  27. Car Crash While Hitchhiking
  28. Marie
  29. The Pugilist at Rest
  30. Girl
  31. A Temporary Matter
  32. Territory
  33. Stone Animals
  34. The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
  35. The Secret Goldfish
  36. Lust
  37. Boys
  38. The Management of Grief
  39. Female Trouble
  40. The Translation
  41. The Things They Carried
  42. Orientation
  43. Pilgrims
  44. Brownies
  45. The Half-Skinned Steer
  46. The Cavemen in the Hedges
  47. Sea Oak
  48. My Shape
  49. Tony’s Story
  50. The Way We Live Now
  51. Two Kinds
  52. Xmas, Jamaica Plain
  53. Nineteen Fifty-five
  54. The Rest of Her Life
  55. Permissions
  56. About Lex Williford and Michael Martone
  57. Copyright