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The Oxford book of American short stories / edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Record details
- ISBN: 0199744394
- ISBN: 9780199744398
- Physical Description: xix, 873 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / William Austin -- The Wives of the Dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Ghost in the Mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville -- Cannibalism in the Cars / Samuel Clemens -- The Middle Years / Henry James -- A White Heron / Sara h Oren Jewett -- The Storm / Kate Chopin -- Old Woman Magoun / Mary e. Wilkins Freeman -- The Sheriff's Children / Charles Chesnutt -- The Yellow Wallpaper / charlotte e Perkins Gilman -- A Journey / Edith Wharton -- The Little Regiment / Stephen Crane -- A Death in the Desert / Willa Cather -- The Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- In a Far Country / Jack London -- The Girl with a Pimply Face / William Carlos Williams -- The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft -- Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- An Alcoholic Case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That Evening Sun / William Faulkner -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Red-Headed Baby / Langston Hughes -- The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright -- A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Nelson Algren -- Where Is the Voice Coming From? / Eudora Welty -- A Distant Episode / Paul Bowles -- The Country Husband / John Cheever -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- My Son the Murderer / Bernard Malamud -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- A Late Encounter with the Enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- The Shawl / Cynthia Ozark -- The School / Donald Barthelme -- The Persistence of Desire / John Updike -- Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth -- The Mud Below / Annie Proulx -- Are These Actual Miles? / Raymond Carver -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Russell Banks -- Give It Up for Billy / Edmund White -- Under the Radar / Richard Ford -- Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff -- The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- The Reach / Stephen King -- Filthy with Things / T. C. Boyle -- Today Will Be a Quiet Day / Amy Hempel -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- The Drowned Life / Jeffrey Ford -- Children as Enemies / Ha Jin -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- Good People / David Foster Wallace -- Mercy / Pinckney Benedict -- Hell-Heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Edison, New Jersey / Junot Díaz. |
| Summary, etc.: | In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. |
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| Subject: | Short stories, American. |
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BookList Review
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
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From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
*Starred Review* Short-story master Oates resumes her editorial command to refit this cornerstone anthology for the twenty-first century. As in the first edition, published 20 years ago, Oates begins with such classic American writers as Hawthorne, Poe, Wharton, and Cather and moves on to Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Welty, Baldwin, and Cheever. But she now includes H. P. Lovecraft, Nelson Algren, Stephen King, T. C. Boyle, Amy Hempel, Ha Jin, David Foster Wallace, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Junot Diaz. Deeply schooled in the history of the form, Oates suggests that the most profound change in the American short story may be the movement from the mythic to the anecdotal, from a mode of impersonal storytelling . . . to a mode of storytelling that is intensely personal, self-conscious, and narrated in a distinctive 'voice.' This, along with a multiplicity of cultures and unifying issues, has radically altered American fiction in parallel with social transformations, and Oates' striking selections embody this literary vitality and the embracing empathy it engenders. Oates' personal definition of the form is that it represents a concentration of imagination, and the resulting intensification is evident and thrilling in every short story she presents, each preceded by a lively author miniprofile. The result is a substantial and superb treasury that will deepen every fiction collection.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist
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