Doubletakes by Boyle
Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, DOUBLETAKES: PAIRS OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES gives students the opportunity to enjoy, through close reading and analysis, the works of some of the most recognized names in contemporary literature.
ANN BEATTIE: The Burning HouseThe Four-Night Fight. AIMEE BENDER: The Rememberer. Quiet Please. JORGE LUIS BORGES: Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote. Funes the Memorious. T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE: She Wasn't Soft. Greasy Lake. ITALO CALVINO: Spring: 1. Mushrooms in the City. Summer: 2. Park Bench Vacation. Autumn: 3. The Municipal Pigeon. Winter: 4. The City Lost in Snow. EMILY CARTER: East on Houston. Parachute Silk. RAYMOND CARVER: The Bath. A Small, Good Thing Put Yourself in My Shoes. JOHN CHEEVER: Goodbye My Brother. The Five-Forty-Eight. ROBERT COOVER: The Convention. The Brother. ROALD DAHL: Dip in the Pool. Taste. LYDIA DAVIS: Almost No Memory. St. Martin. JUNOT DIAZ: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie. LOUISE ERDRICH: Saint Marike. The Red Convertible. RICHARD FORD: Rock Springs. Great Falls. MARY GAITSKILL: Secretary. A Romantic Weekend. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. ELLEN GILCHRIST: Rich. In the Land of Dreamy Dreams. AMY HEMPEL: In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried. Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep. ISABEL HUGGAN: Celia Behind Me. Sorrows of the Flesh. DENIS JOHNSON: Car Crash While Hitchhiking. Beverly Home. JAMAICA KINKAID: Poor Visitor. Figures in the Distance. LEONARD MICHAELS: Murderers. In the Fifties. LORRIE MOORE: People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk. How to Become a Writer. JOYCE CAROL OATES: Tick. The Abduction. TIM O'BRIEN: The Things They Carried. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. FLANNERY O'CONNOR: A Good Man is Hard to Find. Good Country People. ANNIE PROULX: The Half-Skinned Steer. Brokeback Mountain. STACEY RICHTER: The Beauty Treatment. My Date With Satan. GEORGE SAUNDERS: The Barber's Unhappiness. I Can't Speak! DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Forever Overhead. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, #20,19-26, New Haven, CT. JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN: Presents. Doc's Story. TOBIAS WOLFF: Powder. Bullet in the Brain.
Keith Aoki is a longtime cartoonist and Professor of Law of the University of California, Davis, School of Law. He is the author of Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property (forthcoming).
James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University Law School, a founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and the author of Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780155060814 |
| ISBN 10 | 0155060813 |
| Title | Doubletakes |
| Author | Boyle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2003-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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