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" You've got to read this : "
edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard.
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BL
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713642
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b535831
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You've got to read this : : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe /\ edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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New York :: HarperPerennial,, [1994]
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, ©1994
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x, 630 pages ;; 25 cm
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0060553588
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: 0060982020 (pbk.)
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: 9780060553586
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: 9780060982027 (pbk.)
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| Contents
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A mother's tale / James Agee -- Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges -- A day in the open / Jane Bowles -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles -- The Star Cafe / Mary Caponegro -- Reflections / Angela Carter -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cleever -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Pie dance / Molly Giles -- Greatness strikes where it pleases / Lars Gustafsson -- The interview / Ruth Prawer Jlabvala -- The dead / James Joyce.
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In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector -- The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield -- Labor day dinner / Alice Munro -- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Wants / Grace Paley -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Helping / Robert Stone -- Master and man / Leo Tolstoy.
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Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike -- The flowers / Alice Walker -- No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty -- Paper garden / Jerome Wilson.
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| Abstract
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Thirty-five authors choose their favorite stories and they explain why. From Chekhov's Gooseberries to Mary Caponegro's The Star Cafe.
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Short stories.
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Short story.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.83
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813/.0108
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PN6120.2.Y68 1994
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Hansen, Ron,1947-
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Shepard, Jim.
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