Sudden fiction (continued) : 60 new short-short stories

Sudden fiction (continued) 60 new short-short stories

Book - 1996

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Subjects
Short stories, American.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton [1996]
Language
English
Other Authors
Robert Shapard, 1942- (-), James Thomas, 1946-
Physical Description
311 pages
ISBN
9780393313420
  • My life as a bat / Margaret Atwood
  • Underwood / Luis Arturo Ramos
  • Grandmas's tales / Andrew Lam
  • The flowers / Alice Walker
  • The liberation of Rome / Robin Hemley
  • What he was like / William Maxwell
  • Sundress / Terese Svoboda
  • Out on bail / Denis Johnson
  • The writers' model / Molly Giles
  • On the rope / Mark Richard
  • We meet at last / David Leavitt
  • Flying / Stephen Dixon
  • Alvin Jones's ignorant wife / Margaret Broucek
  • The unlikely origin of metaphor / Ricardo Pau-Llosa
  • War and peace / Thomas McGuane
  • Tergvinder's stone / W.S. Merwin
  • Videotape / Don DeLillo
  • Scheherazade / Charles Baxter
  • Jacob's chicken / Milos Macourek
  • Deep end / Charlotte Painter
  • Sister Francetta and the pig baby / Kenneth Bernard
  • The flood / Joy Harjo
  • Doves / Ursula Hegi
  • The tablecloth of turin / Ron Carlson
  • Where you live now / Mary Swan
  • I owned Vermont / Bret Lott
  • The I is never alone / Marcel Marien
  • Sketch / Clarence Major
  • We bad / Salarrue (Salazar Arrue)
  • Relic / Robert Olen Butler
  • A bar in Brooklyn
  • Blue hair / Michael Martone
  • Emiko's garden
  • Sylvia Watanabe
  • The visitation / Fernando Sorrentino
  • Cartography / Lynn Grossman
  • The fun house / Sherman Alexie
  • Crossing to Abbassiya / Allen Hibbard
  • To be Horst / Mitch Berman
  • Ten miles of venus / Judy Troy
  • Dreaming Geronimo / William deBuys
  • Dead weight / Mario Roberto Morales
  • Waiting for the broken horse / Allen Woodman
  • The monument / Pagan Kennedy
  • The birthday cake / Daniel Lyons
  • That changes everything / Cathryn Alpert
  • The senora / Dagoberto Gilb
  • Graceful exits / Traci L. Gourdine
  • Flatland / Richard Plant
  • Arnie's test day / Barry Peters
  • F.O.B. flicker / Merrill Gilfillan
  • The fish / Steve Adams
  • A simple death / Yahya Gharagozlou
  • The naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell
  • Murder, mystery / Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Giving it away / Shelley Hunt
  • How one becomes the other / Lee K. Abbott
  • The cranes / Peter Meinke
  • Symphony / Pam Houston
  • Silver arrows / Barry Yourgrau
  • The cat was dead / Glen Weldon.
Review by Booklist Review

Shapard and Thomas clearly have struck a chord, gathering 60 more of the best short-short stories (each no more than 2,000 words long) in their third collection (after Sudden Fiction, 1986, and Sudden Fiction International, 1989, both still in print). These selections, made with the assistance of the editors' colleagues and students, include the work of such established and award-winning authors as Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell, Don DeLillo, Madison Smartt Bell, and Robert Olen Butler and represent styles ranging from realism to fantasy and from traditional to experimental. No reader will embrace each of these stories equally, and some may lament the absence of their own favorite writers of short-short stories (such as Andre Dubus, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Roxana Robinson). But quibbles aside, this is fiction perfectly suited to the pace of modern life, designed to be read whenever a person can snatch a few minutes of time and savored all the more for it. (Reviewed July 1996)0393038300Michele Leber

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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