New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond

Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories--each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise, whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, such as Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Teolinda Gers o, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff. Zdravka Evitmova conjures blood drops that cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public relations for crows. Juan Jos Mil s leads an amnesiac husband to an affair in the candlelit darkness of a cathedral with his wife. These tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/01/2007
ISBN: 9780393328011
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2006 pg. 1100
Kliatt 03/01/2007 pg. 30