You'Ve Got to Read This,9780060982027

You'Ve Got to Read This

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ISBN13: 9780060982027
ISBN10: 0060982020
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-09-17
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
A Mother's Tale
1(18)
James Agee
Introduced
Annie Dillard
Guy de Maupassant
19(10)
Isaac Babel
Introduced
Francine Prose
Sonny's Blues
29(28)
James Baldwin
Introduced
Kenneth A. McClane
The School
57(6)
Donald Barthelme
Introduced
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Aleph
63(14)
Jorge Luis Borges
Introduced
Oscar Hijuelos
A Day in the Open
77(10)
Jane Bowles
Introduced
Joy Williams
A Distant Episode
87(14)
Paul Bowles
Introduced
John L'Heureux
The Star Cafe
101(18)
Mary Caponegro
Introduced
John Hawkes
Reflections
119(16)
Angela Carter
Introduced
Robert Coover
Cathedral
135(16)
Raymond Carver
Introduced
Tobias Wolff
Goodbye, My Brother
151(24)
John Cheever
Introduced
Allan Gurganus
Gooseberries
175(12)
Anton Chekhov
Introduced
Eudora Welty
A Christmas Carol
187(62)
Chales Dickens
Introduced
John Irving
Pie Dance
249(8)
Molly Giles
Introduced
Amy Tan
Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases
257(14)
Lars Gustafsson
Introduced
Charles Baxter
The Interview
271(12)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Introduced
Jane Smiley
The Dead
283(36)
James Joyce
Introduced
Mary Gordon
In the Penal Colony
319(24)
Franz Kafka
Introduced
Joyce Carol Oates
Girl
343(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
Introduced
Stephanie Vaughn
The Smallest Woman in the World
349(10)
Clarice Lispector
Introduced
Julia Alvarez
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
359(20)
Katherine Mansfield
Introduced
Deborah Eisenberg
Labor Day Dinner
379(22)
Alice Munro
Introduced
David Leavitt
Spring in Fialta
401(20)
Vladimir Nabokov
Introduced
Jim Shepard
The Things They Carried
421(18)
Tim O'Brien
Introduced
Bobbie Ann Mason
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
439(18)
Flannery O'Connor
Introduced
Sue Miller
I Stand Here Ironing
457(10)
Tillie Olsen
Introduced
Amy Hempel
Wants
467(4)
Grace Paley
Introduced
Janet Kauffman
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
471(10)
Delmore Schwartz
Introduced
Tim O'Brien
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
481(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Introduced
Louis Owens
Helping
489(24)
Robert Stone
Introduced
Louise Erdrich
Master and Man
513(46)
Leo Tolstoy
Introduced
Ron Hansen
Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car
559(20)
John Updike
Introduced
Lorrie Moore
The Flowers
579(6)
Alice Walker
Introduced
Edward P. Jones
No Place for You, My Love
585(18)
Eudora Welty
Introduced
Russell Banks
Paper Garden
603(12)
Jerome Wilson
Introduced
Al Young
About the Authors 615

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