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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

2007-12-18 Fiction
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Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Sea Oak by George Saunders Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Do Not Disturb by A.M. Homes The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis The Father’s Blessing by Mary Caponegro The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders by Aleksandar Hemon People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to Tell You by Gary Lutz Histories of the Undead by Kate Braverman When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri Down the Road by Stephen Dixon X Number of Possibilities by Joanna Scott Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace The Sound Gun by Matthew Derby Short Talks by Anne Carson Field Events by Rick Bass Scarliotti and the Sinkhole by Padgett Powell

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

2004-08-10 Fiction
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Release : 2004-08-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2004-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by the award-winning author of "Notable American Women," this engaging and comprehensive collection contains 29 short stories that show the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Contributors include Jhumpa Lahiri, David Foster Wallace, Rick Bass, and Anne Carson.

New American Stories

2015-07-21 Literary Collections
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Release : 2015-07-21
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis New American Stories by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book New American Stories written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

2010-03-31 Fiction
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Release : 2010-03-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction by : Denys Johnson-Davies

Download or read book The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction written by Denys Johnson-Davies. This book was released on 2010-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary sons and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid the foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour; and Yusuf Idris, who embraced Egypt’s vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the Arab world’s finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koni’s tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir’s masterly story “Clocks Like Horses,” and the work of such women writers as Lebanon’s Hanan al-Shaykh and Morocco’s Leila Abouzeid.

Leaving the Sea

2014-10-07 Fiction
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Release : 2014-10-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 988/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the Sea by : Ben Marcus

Download or read book Leaving the Sea written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2014-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

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