{"product_id":"single-scene-short-stories-book-margaret-bishop-9781423600626","title":"Single Scene Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eSingle Scene Short Stories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdited by Margaret Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe thirty-three works collected in Single Scene Short Stories each have one remarkable quality-the whole of the story takes place in one scene, one geographical coordinate, one window of time. To think of it dramatically, it is a story presented on a stage with no change of setting or costume, no voice-over summarizing or carrying the viewer from here to there. This collection contains some of the best single scene short stories ever written, the modern classics of this form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStories include:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"House Hunting,\" Michael Chabon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Daughter of Albion,\" Anton Chekhov\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Ninth in E Minor,\" Fred Busch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Crickets,\" Robert Olen Butler\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Intimacy,\" Raymond Carver\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Nice Restaurant,\" Mary Gaitskill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hills Like White Elephants,\" Ernest Hemingway\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"San Francisco,\" Amy Hempel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eveline,\" James Joyce\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wine,\" Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Ruse,\" Guy de Maupassant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the Warehouse,\" Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Revelation,\" Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Carrington and Mrs. Crane,\" Dorothy Parker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wants,\" Grace Paley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSudden Fiction has sold 50,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49802989043985,"sku":"CIN1423600622G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51436465684753,"sku":"CIN1423600622VG","price":5.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1423600622.jpg?v=1750922396","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/single-scene-short-stories-book-margaret-bishop-9781423600626","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}