You've got to read this : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe / edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard.
| Other author | Hansen, Ron, 1947- |
| Other author | Shepard, Jim. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : HarperPerennial, ©1994. |
| Description | x, 630 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A mother's tale / James Agee -- Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges -- A day in the open / Jane Bowles -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles -- The star cafe / Mary Caponegro -- Reflections / Angela Carter -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cleever -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Pie dance / Molly Giles -- Greatness strikes where it pleases / Lars Gustafsson -- The interview / Ruth Prawer Jlabvala -- The dead / James Joyce. |
| Contents | In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector -- The daughters of the late colnel / Katherine Mansfield -- Labor day dinner / Alice Munro -- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Wants / Grace Paley -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Helping / Robert Stone -- Master and man / Leo Tolstoy. |
| Contents | Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike -- The flowers / Alice Walker -- No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty -- Paper garden / Jerome Wilson. |
| LCCN | 94014460 |
| ISBN | 0060553588 : |
| ISBN | 0060982020 (pbk.) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | TRC Fiction | F Y889 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |