Doubletakes : pairs of contemporary short stories /

Main Author: Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Other Authors: Kvashay-Boyle, K. (Kerrie)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Thomson/Wadsworth, c 2004
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Donald Barthleme: The school
  • Ann Beattie: The burning house, the four-night fight
  • Aimee Bender: The Remember, quiet please
  • Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard -author of Don Quixote, funes, the memorious
  • T.Coraghessan Boyle: She wasnʹt 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 the snow
  • Emily Carter: East on Houston, Parachute silk
  • Raymond Carver: the bath, a small, good thing
  • John Cheeever: goodbye my brother, the five-forty-eight
  • Robert Coover: The convention, the brother
  • Roald Dahl: Taste, dip in the pool
  • 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
  • Richard Ford: Rock Springs, Great Falls
  • Mary Gaitskill: Secretary, A romantic weekend
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A very old man with enormous wings, the handsomest drwoned 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
  • Jamaica Kincaid: Poor visitor, figures in the distance
  • 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 OʹBriewn: The things they carried, sweetheart of the song Tra Bong
  • Flannery Oʹ Connor: A good man is hard to find, good country people
  • Annie Proulx: the half-skinned steer, the blood bay
  • Stacey Richter: the beauty treatment, the cavemen in the hedges
  • George Saunders: The Barberʹs Unhappiness, I CAN SPEAK
  • David Foster Wallace: Forever Overhead, Brief interviews with hideous men
  • John Edgar Wideman: Docʹs Story, Presents
  • Tobias Wolff: Powder, Bullet in the Brain.