The Penguin book of the modern American short story, edited by John Freeman
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Label
The Penguin book of the modern American short story, edited by John Freeman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
The Penguin book of the modern American short story
Oclc number
1192493851
Responsibility statement
edited by John Freeman
Summary
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Modern American short story
Classification
Contributor
- Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Davis, Lydia
- Everett, Percival
- Williams, Joy, 1944-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Muñoz, Manuel, 1972-
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Johnson, Charles, 1948-
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- King, Stephen, 1947-
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Liu, Ken, 1976-
- Holleran, Andrew
- Paley, Grace
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
- Chiang, Ted
- Bass, Rick, 1958-
- Groff, Lauren
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Russell, Karen, 1981-
- Englander, Nathan
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Erdrich, Louise
- Berlin, Lucia
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Freeman, John, 1974-
Genre
Content
Author
- Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Davis, Lydia
- Everett, Percival
- Williams, Joy, 1944-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Muñoz, Manuel, 1972-
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Johnson, Charles, 1948-
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- King, Stephen, 1947-
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Liu, Ken, 1976-
- Holleran, Andrew
- Paley, Grace
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
- Chiang, Ted
- Bass, Rick, 1958-
- Groff, Lauren
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Russell, Karen, 1981-
- Englander, Nathan
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Erdrich, Louise
- Berlin, Lucia
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Editor
resource.hasPart
- The dune
- Water child
- Emergency
- The flowers
- Bullet in the brain
- River of names
- Salvador late or early
- Sait Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- A conversation with my father
- Girl
- The penthouse
- The 27th man
- Story
- Sticks
- Silence
- The twenty seventh man
- A temporary matter
- China
- The lesson
- Anyone can do it
- The great silence
- The hermit's story
- The paper menagerie
- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- The red covertible
- The American embassy
- The ones who walk away from Omelas
- Diem perdidi
- The way we live now
- Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes
- The last thing we need
- The things they carried
- Taking care
- The midnight zone
- The conductor
- The fix
- Fiesta, 1980
- The reencounter
- Pet milk
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor38
- Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Davis, Lydia
- Everett, Percival
- Williams, Joy, 1944-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Muñoz, Manuel, 1972-
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Johnson, Charles, 1948-
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- King, Stephen, 1947-
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Liu, Ken, 1976-
- Holleran, Andrew
- Paley, Grace
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
- Chiang, Ted
- Bass, Rick, 1958-
- Groff, Lauren
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Russell, Karen, 1981-
- Englander, Nathan
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Erdrich, Louise
- Berlin, Lucia
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Freeman, John, 1974-
- Genre1
- Subject3
- Content1
- Author37
- Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017
- Davis, Lydia
- Everett, Percival
- Williams, Joy, 1944-
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Díaz, Junot, 1968-
- Muñoz, Manuel, 1972-
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Johnson, Charles, 1948-
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- King, Stephen, 1947-
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Liu, Ken, 1976-
- Holleran, Andrew
- Paley, Grace
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
- Chiang, Ted
- Bass, Rick, 1958-
- Groff, Lauren
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Russell, Karen, 1981-
- Englander, Nathan
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Erdrich, Louise
- Berlin, Lucia
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Editor1
- resource.hasPart39
- The dune
- Water child
- Emergency
- The flowers
- Bullet in the brain
- River of names
- Salvador late or early
- Sait Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- A conversation with my father
- Girl
- The penthouse
- The 27th man
- Story
- Sticks
- Silence
- The twenty seventh man
- A temporary matter
- China
- The lesson
- Anyone can do it
- The great silence
- The hermit's story
- The paper menagerie
- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- The red covertible
- The American embassy
- The ones who walk away from Omelas
- Diem perdidi
- The way we live now
- Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes
- The last thing we need
- The things they carried
- Taking care
- The midnight zone
- The conductor
- The fix
- Fiesta, 1980
- The reencounter
- Pet milk
- Other version1
- Mapped to1