| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical refereences (pages 289-292) |
| Summary |
Presents twenty short stories, with protagonists aged three to eighteen years old, by such authors as John Updike, Alice Walker, Genaro Gonzales, and Carson McCullers. |
| Contents |
Should wizard hit mommy? / John Updike -- The stone boy / Gina Berriault -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Too much his father's son / Genaro Gonzalez -- Rose-Johnny / Barbara Kingsolver -- The little knife / Michael Chabon -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Over the hill / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- A girl's story / Toni Cade Bambara -- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers -- The skater / Joy Williams -- What means switch / Gish Jen -- Growing / Helena María Viramontes -- Iona moon / Melaine Rae Thon -- Hard to be good / Bill Barich -- Boy and girl / Joyce Carol Oates -- A sudden trip home in the spring / Alice Walker -- Lies / Ethan Canin. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Loughery, John.
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| ISBN |
0892551860 : $29.95 |
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0892551879 : $11.95 |
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