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American short stories since 1945 /

"Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since Worl...

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Other Authors: Parks, John G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
American fiction > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 1945-1960, The strains of accommodation and consensus :
  • The lottery /
  • Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)
  • Why I live at the P.O. /
  • Eudora Welty (1909- )
  • The Spinoza of Market Street /
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
  • I stand here ironing /
  • Tillie Olsen (1913- )
  • Battle royal /
  • Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
  • An interest in life /
  • Grace Paley (1922- )
  • Prince of darkness /
  • J.F. Powers (1917-1999)
  • Don't call me by my right name /
  • James Purdy (1923- )
  • The Jewbird /
  • Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
  • The old forest /
  • Peter Taylor (1917-1994)
  • A good man is hard to find /
  • Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
  • Revelation /
  • Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
  • The ram in the thicket /
  • Wright Morris (1910-1998)
  • The country husband /
  • John Cheever (1912-1982)
  • The housebreaker of Shady Hill /
  • John Cheever (1912-1982)
  • Defender of the faith /
  • Philip Roth (1933- )
  • Sonny's blues /
  • James Baldwin (1924-1987)
  • Seventeen syllables /
  • Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ).
  • 2. 1960s and 1970s, Breakdowns and breakthroughs :
  • Looking for Mr. Green /
  • Saul Bellow (1915- )
  • In the heart of the heart of the country /
  • William H. Gass (1924- )
  • The sky is gray /
  • Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )
  • The babysitter /
  • Robert Coover (1932- )
  • Night-sea journey /
  • John Barth (1930- )
  • Views of my father weeping /
  • Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
  • The ones who walk away from Omelas /
  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )
  • The shawl /
  • Cynthia Ozick (1928- )
  • Come on back /
  • John Gardner (1933-1982)
  • Where are you going, where have you been? /
  • Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )
  • The lesson /
  • Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
  • I would have saved them if I could /
  • Leonard Michaels (1933- )
  • To hell with dying /
  • Alice Walker (1944- )
  • Separating /
  • John Updike (1932- )
  • Of cabbages and kings /
  • James Alan McPherson (1943- )
  • Girl /
  • Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
  • The oranging of America /
  • Max Apple (1941- )
  • Midnight and I'm not famous yet /
  • Barry Hannah (1942- )
  • Souvenir /
  • Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- )
  • Storyteller /
  • Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
  • Roses, rhododendron /
  • Alice Adams (1926- ).
  • 3. 1980s and 1990s, Centers and margins :
  • A father's story /
  • Andre Dubus (1936-1999)
  • The priest next door /
  • Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1941- )
  • Janus /
  • Ann Beattie (1947- )
  • Coach /
  • Mary Robison (1949- )
  • Hunters in the snow /
  • Tobias Wolff (1945- )
  • A new-wave format /
  • Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- )
  • The redneck way of knowledge /
  • Blanche McCrary Boyd (1945- )
  • Another marvelous thing /
  • Laurie Colwin (1944-1992)
  • Greasy lake /
  • T.C. Boyle (1948- )
  • Exchange value /
  • Charles Johnson (1948- )
  • The way we live now /
  • Susan Sontag (1933- )
  • The Tip-Top Club /
  • Garrison Keillor (1942- )
  • The things they carried /
  • Tim O'Brien (1946- )
  • Health /
  • Joy Williams (1944- )
  • On mortality /
  • Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )
  • The management of grief /
  • Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )
  • Gryphon /
  • Charles Baxter (1947- )
  • Rules of the game /
  • Amy Tan (1952- )
  • Rock Springs /
  • Richard Ford (1944- )
  • People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk /
  • Lorrie Moore (1957- )
  • Saint Marie (1934) /
  • Louise Erdrich (1954- )
  • The only real day /
  • Frank Chin (1940- )
  • Everyday disorders /
  • Francine Prose (1947- )
  • What we talk about when we talk about love /
  • Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
  • Cathedral /
  • Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
  • In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried /
  • Amy Hempel (1951- )
  • Wickedness /
  • Ron Hansen (1947- )
  • Able, Baker, Charlie, dog /
  • Stephanie Vaughn (1943- )
  • The Cariboo Cafe /
  • Helena María Viramontes (1954- )
  • One holy night /
  • Sandra Cisneros (1954- )
  • Relic /
  • Robert Olen Butler (1944- )
  • Helping /
  • Robert Stone (1937- )
  • How to talk to a hunter /
  • Pam Houston (1962- )
  • Videotape /
  • Don Delillo (1936- )
  • Cold snap /
  • Thom Jones (1945- )
  • This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona /
  • Sherman Alexie (1966- )
  • Oxygen /
  • Ron Carlson (1947- )
  • The littoral zone /
  • Andrea Barrett (1965- )
  • The girl on the plane /
  • Mary Gaitskill (1954- )
  • A place I've never been /
  • David Leavitt (1961- ).

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