Michael Martone

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

50 North American Stories Since 1970
Redaktion: Williford, Lex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.

Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476727363
• Artikelnr.: 37940611

Autorenporträt

Michael Martone has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, where he has directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Double-wide: Collected Fiction is his eighth book of stories. Racing in Place, his third book of nonfiction, will be published in 2008. He has edited six other volumes of prose including the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction with Lex Williford. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
LEX WILLIFORD AND MICHAEL MARTONE
Foreword
ROSELLEN BROWN
Introduction
ALEXIE, SHERMAN
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Death by Landscape
BAMBARA, TONI
Cade Raymond's Run
BANKS, RUSSELL
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story
BARTH, JOHN
Click
BARTHELME, DONALD
The School
BASS, RICK
Wild Horses
BAUSCH, RICHARD
The Man Who Knew Belle Starr
BAXTER, CHARLES
Gryphon
BELL, MADISON SMARTT
Customs of the Country
BLOOM, AMY SILVER
Water
BRAVERMAN, KATE
Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta
BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
CANIN, ETHAN
The Year of Getting to Know Us
CARVER, RAYMOND
Errand
CISNEROS, SANDRA
Woman Hollering Creek
CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL
White Angel
DIAZ, JUNOT
Fiesta 1980
DYBEK, STUART
Pet Milk
EARLEY, TONY
The Prophet from Jupiter
ERDRICH, LOUISE
Saint Marie
FORD, RICHARD
Rock Springs
GATES, DAVID
The Mail Lady
GAUTREAUX, TIM
Same Place, Same Things
HANSEN, RON
Nebraska
HEMPEL, AMY
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
JOHNSON, DENIS
Emergency
JONES, EDWARD P.
Marie
JONES, THOM
Cold Snap
KAPLAN, DAVID MICHAEL
Doe Season
KAUFFMAN, JANET
Patriotic
KINCAID, JAMAICA
Girl
LEAVITT, DAVID
Territory
MCKNIGHT, REGINALD
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
MOORE, LORRIE
You're Ugly, Too
MUKHERJEE, BHARATI
The Management of Grief
MUNRO, ALICE
Meneseteung
OATES, JOYCE CAROL
Ghost Girls
O'BRIEN, TIM
The Things They Carried
OZICK, CYNTHIA
The Shawl
PROULX, ANNIE
Brokeback Mountain
RICHARD, MARK
Strays
SMITH, LEE
Intensive Care
SONTAG, SUSAN
The Way We Live Now
TAN, AMY
Two Kinds
THON, MELANIE RAE
First, Body
VAUGHN, STEPHANIE
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog
WALKER, ALICE
Nineteen Fifty-five
WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR
Fever
WILLIAMS, JOY
Taking Care