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Children playing before a statue of Hercules

Sedaris, David (Added Author).

Summary: A collection of contemporary and classical short fiction works includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Item details

  • ISBN: 074327394X (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780743273947 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    vi, 344 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, c2005.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro -- Applause, applause / Jean Thompson -- I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- The best of Betty / Jincy Willett -- Song of the shirt, 1941 / Dorothy Parker -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Irish girl / Tim Johnston -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.

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Subject: Short stories, American
Short stories, Commonwealth (English)

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Cherokee Regional Library:
      Chickamauga Public Library 		813.0108 CHILDRE ( Send Text)
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