The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

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FICTION/LITERATU RE * DOROTHY ALLISON * RICHÁRD BAUSCH * ANN BEATTIE * CAROL BLY * * SCOTT BRADFIELD * KATE BRAVERMAN * RAYMOND CARVER * * ANDRE DUBUS * STUART DYBEK * RICHÁRD FORD * MARY GAITSKILL * * ALLAN GURGANUS * BARRY HANNAH * RON HANSEN * DENIS JOHNSON * * EDWARD P. JONES * THOM JONES * JAMAICA KINCAID * The thirty-three stories in this generous and discerning volume prove that American short fiction may be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they alsó make up an alternate map of the United States, one that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches to the use of language. Here are the heartbroken realism of Andre Dubus and Thom Jones; Edward P. Jones's affecting inner-cityscape; and Mary Gaitskill's wry and icy vision of life on the S/M frontier. Here, alongside contemporary classics like Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," Richárd Ford's "Rock Springs," and Tim O'Brien's "The... Tovább

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FICTION/LITERATU RE * DOROTHY ALLISON * RICHÁRD BAUSCH * ANN BEATTIE * CAROL BLY * * SCOTT BRADFIELD * KATE BRAVERMAN * RAYMOND CARVER * * ANDRE DUBUS * STUART DYBEK * RICHÁRD FORD * MARY GAITSKILL * * ALLAN GURGANUS * BARRY HANNAH * RON HANSEN * DENIS JOHNSON * * EDWARD P. JONES * THOM JONES * JAMAICA KINCAID * The thirty-three stories in this generous and discerning volume prove that American short fiction may be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they alsó make up an alternate map of the United States, one that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches to the use of language. Here are the heartbroken realism of Andre Dubus and Thom Jones; Edward P. Jones's affecting inner-cityscape; and Mary Gaitskill's wry and icy vision of life on the S/M frontier. Here, alongside contemporary classics like Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," Richárd Ford's "Rock Springs," and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," is fiction by exciting new voices such as Chris Offutt and Susan Power. Variously funny, frightening, poignant-and always exhilarating-the vintage book of contemporary american short stories displays OUr best writers at the peak of their powers and the American narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. * JOHN L'HEUREUX * RALPH LOMBREGLIA * LEONARD MICHAELS * * JOYCE CAROL OATES * TIM O'BRIEN * CHRIS OFFUTT * * RÓBERT OLMSTEAD * JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS * SUSAN POWER * * MONA SIMPSON * RÓBERT STONE * AMY TAN * STEPHANIE VAUGHN * * JOHN EDGÁR WIDEMAN * JOY WILLIAMS * Vissza