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Title:
100 years of the best American short stories
ISBN:
9780547485850
Physical Description:
xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories.
Contents:
The gay old dog / Brothers / My old man / Haircut / Babylon revisited / The cracked looking-glass / That will be fine / Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale; The whole world knows / The enormous radio / I stand here ironing / Sonny's blues / The conversion of the Jews / Everything that rises must converge / Pigeon feathers / Will you please be quiet, please? / By the river / The school / The conventional wisdom / Friends / Harmony of the world / Lawns / Communist / Helping / Displacement / Friend of my youth / The girl on the plane / Xuela / If you sing like that for me / Fiesta, 1980 / The third and final continent / Brownies / What you pawn I will redeem / Old boys, old girls / Refresh, refresh / Awaiting orders / What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Diem perdidi / The semplica-girl diaries / At the round Earth's imagined corners
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Summary:
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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