| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
342 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Charles Baxter -- Falling girl / Dino Buzzati -- Death of the right fielder / Stuart Dybek -- Blackberries / Leslie Norris -- Don't you blame anyone / Julio Cortazar -- On hope / Spencer Holst -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Other wife / Collette -- Volpaia / Mark Helprin -- Insolvable problem of genetics / Josef Skvorecky -- House opposite / R.K. Narayan -- Love, Your Only Mother / David Michael Kaplan -- Laughter / Heinrich Boll -- August 25, 1983 / Jorge Luis Borges -- Elephant / Slawomir Mrozek -- Homage for Isaac Babel / Doris Lessing -- One of these days / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Welcoming the board of directors / Peter Handke -- Boy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Weather in San Francisco / Richard Brautigan -- Blue / David Brooks -- Grass-eaters / Krishnan Varma -- Preparations / Kenneth Bernard -- At the river / Patricia Grace -- Blue jar / Isak Dinesen -- Gregory / Panos Ioannides -- Iguana hunting / Hernan Lara Zavala -- Disappearing / Monica Wood -- Lover's ear / Yuan Ch'iung-ch'iung -- By the creek / Barry Yourgrau -- Book / Rodrigo Rey Rosa -- Facing the light / Talat Abbasi -- Lost keys / Paul Milenski -- Arrest me / Denis Hirson -- Orion / Jeanette Winterson -- Verb "to kill" / Luisa Valenzuela -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- Bigfoot stole my wife / Ron Carlson -- Mr. and Mrs. Martins / Edla van Steen -- Di Grasso / Isaac Babel -- Street-sweeping show / Feng Jicai -- Courtly vision / Bharati Mukherjee -- Model / Bernard Malamud -- Terminal / Nadine Gordimer -- Emilie plead choose one egg / Paule Barton -- There's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella / Fernano Sorrentino -- Family Album / Siv Cedering -- Last days of a famous mime / Peter Carey -- Shoe breaker / Daniel Boulanger -- Katya / Sergei Dovlatov -- Looking for a rain god / Bessie Head -- School / Donald Barthelme -- Fifth story / Clarice Lispector -- Tancredi / Barbara Alberti -- Papas / Julio Ortega -- Black dog / J. Bernlef -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- Explosion in the parlor / Bai Xiao-yi -- Acknowledgments / Paul Theroux. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
|
| Added Author |
Shapard, Robert, 1942-
|
|
Thomas, James, 1946-
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| ISBN |
039302718X : $22.95 ($27.95 Can.) |
| Standard No. |
NLC 910031134 |
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