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New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
by Robert Shapard
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780393328011 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
All new, with more great writers than ever--these tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling.
Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories--each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise, whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, such as Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Teolinda Gersao, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff.
Zdravka Evitmova conjures blood drops that cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public relations for crows. Juan Jose Milas leads an amnesiac husband to an affair in the candlelit darkness of a cathedral with his wife.
Students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read.
About the Author
The editors teach literature and creative writing—Robert Shapard at the University of Hawaii, James Thomas in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They also edited Flash Fiction Forward.
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Melissa Kinsey, April 3, 2007 (view all comments by Melissa Kinsey)
These stories illustrate the idea that art is the intersection of imagination and reality. Just "real" enough, they cause you to step outside your definition of reality for bursts of time and expand your definition of the possible. Many are funny, some disturbing and all worth the ten minutes or so they take to read.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780393328011
- Subtitle:
- Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Editor:
- Thomas, James
- Editor:
- Shapard, Robert
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Short stories
- Subject:
- Short stories, American
- Subject:
- Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Publication Date:
- January 2007
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 8 x 6 in
