An anthology of short fiction features the work of authors including Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Gordon, Jim Shepard, and Barry Lopez.
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About the Author:
Tobias Wolff is the author of This Boy's Life, Back in the World, and In Pharaoh's Army, which was a National Book Award Finalist.
From the Inside Flap:
Thomas Beller * Jason Brown * Frederick Busch * Andre Dubus * Bridget Rohan Garrity * Tim Gautreaux * Mary Gordon * Ralph Lombreglia * Barry Lopez * Jacob Molyneux * Joyce Carol Oates * Chris Offutt * Stewart O'Nan * Jim Shepard
15 short stories that brilliantly capture the American experience--for the best of causes.
All proceeds benefit Share Our Strength's hunger-relief programs.
Once again demonstrating the power and vitality of the short story today, America's top writers--from John Barth to Mary Gordon, Andre Dubus to Joyce Carol Oates--have generously donated their stories in this bountiful collection of new fiction.
Whether it's Andre Dubus depicting a soldier who has found God and must suffer the consequences, Barry Lopez chronicling a couple of horse thieves whose fate is as determined as the transit of the planets, or Mary Gordon writing of one woman's relationship with her blind neighbor, these stories mark the prominence of the short st
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0385333773
- ISBN 13 9780385333771
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
- EditorWolff Tobias
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