Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood by Lorrie Moore

Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood by Lorrie Moore

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An anthology of stories about childhood. Contemporary writers present the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Each story is told by a child character or by the adult who was that child.

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Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood by Lorrie Moore

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood presents the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Some of today's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Spalding Gray, Jamaica Kincaid, Susan Minot, Alice Munro, Edna O'Brian, Ben Okri and Amy Tan, capture childhood incidents that are comic, startling, touching and disturbing.
Lorrie Moore is the award-winning author of the story collections Self-Help, Like Life, and Birds of America, and the novels Anagrams and Who will Run the Frog Hospital? She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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ISBN 13 9780571192014
ISBN 10 0571192017
Title Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood
Author Lorrie Moore
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1998-01-05
Number of pages 432
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.