Cape Cod Stories Tales from the Cape, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard,9780811832526

Cape Cod Stories Tales from the Cape, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard

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ISBN13: 9780811832526
ISBN10: 081183252X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-02-01
Publisher(s): Chronicle Books
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Summary

From the drifting sand dunes and quaint shops of Provincetown to Nantucket s whitewashed verandas and craggy beaches, Cape Cod Stories evokes all the rustic beauty and history of this picturesque area in the words of America s best writers. With a striking new cover, this popular anthology is the next best thing to a summer on the Cape.

Author Biography

Alice Hoffman s books include Blue Diary, Here on Earth, Local Girls, and Practical Magic. She lives in Massachusetts.

John Miller lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has co-edited numerous anthologies for Chronicle Books.

Tim Smith is a San Francisco-based writer and co-editor, with John Miller, of several anthologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Alice Hoffman
On Nauset Beach
1(6)
Adam Gopnik
Anonymous Falmouth Whaling Log
7(3)
Homesick
10(2)
Marge Piercy
Tough Guys Don't Dance
12(36)
Norman Mailer
The Sea Witch of Billingsgate
48(8)
Jeremiah Digges
The Chaste Clarissa
56(18)
John Cheever
Mussels
74(2)
Mary Oliver
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
76(18)
Denis Johnson
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
94(15)
Edgar Allan Poe
A Summer in Brewster
109(2)
Helen Keller
The Last Kiss
111(13)
Arturo Vivante
The Highland Light
124(6)
Henry David Thoreau
Provincetown Diary
130(9)
Louise Rafkin
Going Barefoot
139(5)
John Updike
Arriving
144(3)
Philip Hamburger
The Provincetown Sea Monster
147(2)
Benjamin Franklin
Maushop's Smoke
149(2)
Timothy Alden
Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor
151(5)
Sylvia Plath
Ciro & Sal's Recipes
156(5)
Alice May Brock
Provincetown
161(4)
Shebnah Rich
The Hyannis Port Story
165(19)
Kurt Vonnegut
Nantucket
184(4)
Herman Melville
Going Out to the Traps
188(4)
Edmund Wilson
Millay Memory of Cape Cod
192(2)
Edna St. Vincent
Summertime on the Cape
194(12)
Paul Theroux
Acknowledgments 206

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