| Description |
297 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents |
Innocence / Sean O'Faolain -- The judgement / Franz Kafka -- Aghwee the sky monster / Kenzaburo Oe -- The perfect game / Sergio Ramirez -- In the shadow of war / Ben Okri -- The son of Rizal / Jose Garcia Villa -- Father's last escape / Bruno Schulz -- Casa Grande / John Edgar Wideman -- Pat Hobby, putative father / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The second generation / Stephen Crane -- Over / Rose Tremain -- A devoted son / Anita Desai -- Simple arithmetic / Virginia Moriconi -- Great Falls / Richard Ford -- Of white hairs and cricket / Rohinton Mistry -- The saw / Hector Murena -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- The Zulu and the Zeide / Dan Jacobson -- The year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin. |
| Summary |
An anthology of father-son stories. Virginia Moriconi's Simple Arithmetic is on a son's correspondence with his divorced parents, while in Ethan Canin's The Year of Getting to Know Us, a father tells a son: You don't have to get to know me because one day you're going to be me. |
| Subject |
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Manguel, Alberto.
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| ISBN |
0811816303 (pbk.) |
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9780811816304 (pbk.) |
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