| Edition |
Touchstone trade paperback edition, revised and updated second edition. |
| Description |
xv, 652 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Touchstone book." |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rosellen Brown -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks -- School / Donald Barthelme -- Hermit's story / Rick Bass -- Fireman's wife / Richard Bausch -- Disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- Caviar / T.C. Boyle -- Ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros -- Relief / Peter Ho Davies -- After Rosa Parks / Janet Desaulniers -- Nilda / Junot Díaz -- Caretaker / Anthony Doerr -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- Twilight of the superheroes / Deborah Eisenberg -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill -- Winners on the pass line / Dagoberto Gilb -- Wickedness / Ron Hansen -- A real doll / A.M. Homes -- How far she went / Mary Hood -- Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- Marie / Edward P. Jones -- Pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Territory / David Leavitt -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- Kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- Secret goldfish / David Means -- Lust / Susan Minot -- Boys / Rick Moody -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Female trouble / Antonya Nelson -- Translation / Joyce Carol Oates -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Orientation / Daniel Orozco -- Pilgrims / Julie Orringer -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Half-skinned steer / E. Annie Proulx -- Cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- My shape / Joan Silber -- Tony's story / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- Rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough. |
| Summary |
An updated edition of top-selected short fictional works features a spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse U.S. and Canadian authors. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
Short stories, Canadian.
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Short stories, Canadian. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, Canadian.
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| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Canadian fiction -- 20th century.
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Canadian fiction. |
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American fiction -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Canada. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Williford, Lex, 1954- editor.
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Martone, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction. Touchstone trade paperback ed., rev. and updated 2nd ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007 (OCoLC)608351333 |
| ISBN |
9781416532279 |
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1416532277 |
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