The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Synopsis
Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six 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. Along with a few classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars," a story that reveals a darker side to his humor). From Melville come the juxtaposed tales "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," " From Flannery O'Connor we find "A Late Encounter With the Enemy," and from John Cheever, "The Death of Justina," one of Cheever's own favorites, though rarely anthologized. Also included are Charles W. Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Sarah Orne Jewett, William Carlos Williams, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Contemporary artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work, plus a long introductory essay, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master
- Derechos de autor:
- 1992 The Ontario Review, Inc.
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195070651
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-11-22T00:15:39Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.