Doubletakes : pairs of contemporary short stories /
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Boston :
Thomson/Wadsworth,
c 2004
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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.