Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard
Gathers stories by Julio Cortazar, Margaret Atwood, Colette, Heinrich Boil, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, and Isak Dinesen.
Sudden Fiction International
Sudden Fiction International
Summary
"Sudden Fiction International is even better than its predecessor. It's a fine teaching tool, a good gift, it's Around-the-World-in-Sixty-Stories, with many surprises, new friends, old friends, almost every stop a brief wonder in itself." -Alan Cheuse
Sudden Fiction International Summary
Sudden Fiction International Reviews
"I relished the concept, tasted the fare, and enjoyed a multicultural feast. My thanks for giving us so many wonderful voices in an accessible and delightful presentation. They're perfect bedtime reading." -- Amy Tan
"In this cosmopolitan range of sensibilities, known authors such as Atwood, Colette, Boll, Borges, Dinesen, Lessing, and Calvino are joined by those we should know and will want to know better." -- DeWitt Henry
"This book pulses with the flare of fiction breaking out-a book of light, of lightning." -- Frederick Busch
"A vital service on behalf of the short, the sweet, and sure, and the-uh-sudden. Bring on another volume!" -- Lee K. Abbott
"Charles Baxter's liberating introduction alone is worth the price of admission. These tales can make you laugh, cry, and even feel exalted in the space of ten minutes." -- Rick DeMarinis
"In this cosmopolitan range of sensibilities, known authors such as Atwood, Colette, Boll, Borges, Dinesen, Lessing, and Calvino are joined by those we should know and will want to know better." -- DeWitt Henry
"This book pulses with the flare of fiction breaking out-a book of light, of lightning." -- Frederick Busch
"A vital service on behalf of the short, the sweet, and sure, and the-uh-sudden. Bring on another volume!" -- Lee K. Abbott
"Charles Baxter's liberating introduction alone is worth the price of admission. These tales can make you laugh, cry, and even feel exalted in the space of ten minutes." -- Rick DeMarinis
About Robert Shapard
Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas. James Thomas has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Michener Fellowship, and two NEA grants. He lives in Xenia, Ohio.
Additional information
GOR001866754
9780393306132
0393306135
Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
1990-01-24
342
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