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More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
More Stories We Tell The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women Author:Wendy Martin From the back: "Engrossing, inventive, inspiring, the stories gathered here testify to the range and richness of women's literary traditions as they have triumphantly moved into the twenty-first century. Wendy Martin's shrewd selections document contemporary complexities along with the enduring powers of the authorial im... more »agination. Read and rejoice".---Sandra Gilbert, author of "The Madwoman in the Attic"
"This wonderful collection gives us a rich sense of the varieties of female experience, allowing us to experience nuanced, insightful, gripping, and sometimes humorous accounts of the emotional and cultural-political worlds in which women create their lives". ----Nancy J. Chodorow, author of "The Reproduction of Mothering"
Contents:
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
The burning house / Ann Beattie --
Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Beg, sl tog, inc, cont, rep / Amy Hempel --
Light can be both wave and particle / Ellen Gilchrist --
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog / Stephanie Vaughn --
Hairball / Margaret Atwood --
Silver water / Amy Bloom --
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros --
Love, forever / Joyce Carol Oates --
Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid --
The littoral zone / Andrea Barrett --
Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill --
Who's Irish / Gish Jen --
Dance in America / Lorrie Moore --
Ma, a memoir / Lynn Freed --
A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Enough / Alice McDermott --
Floating bridge / Alice Munro --
Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer --
The passenger / Marisa Silver --
The shawl / Louise Erdrich --
The birthday present / Andrea Lee --
My father addresses me on the facts of old age / Grace Paley.« less