TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,John
AU  - Allison,Dorothy
AU  - Adichie,Chimamanda Ngozi
AU  - Bambara,Toni Cade
AU  - Bass,Rick
AU  - Berlin,Lucia
AU  - Carver,Raymond
AU  - Chiang,Ted
AU  - Cisneros,Sandra
AU  - Danticat,Edwidge
AU  - Davis,Lydia
AU  - Díaz,Junot
AU  - Dybek,Stuart
AU  - Englander,Nathan
AU  - Erdrich,Louise
AU  - Everett,Percival
AU  - Groff,Lauren
AU  - Hemon,Aleksandar
AU  - Holleran,Andrew
AU  - Johnson,Charles
AU  - Johnson,Denis
AU  - Kincaid,Jamaica
AU  - King,Stephen
AU  - Lahiri,Jhumpa
AU  - Le Guin,Ursula K.
AU  - Liu,Ken
AU  - Muñoz,Manuel
AU  - O'Brien,Tim
AU  - Otsuka,Julie
AU  - Paley,Grace
AU  - Russell,Karen
AU  - Saunders,George
AU  - Singer,Isaac Bashevis
AU  - Sontag,Susan
AU  - Walker,Alice
AU  - Watkins,Claire Vaye
AU  - Williams,Joy
AU  - Wolff,Tobias
TI  - The Penguin book of the modern American short story
SN  - 9781984877802
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Introduction; by John Freeman -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972 --; A conversation with my father; Grace Paley, 1972 --; The ones who walk away from Omelas; Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 --; Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes; Raymond Carver, 1973 --; The flowers; Alice Walker, 1973 --; Girl; Jamaica Kincaid, 1978 --; The red covertible; Louise Erdrich, 1981 --; The reencounter; Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982 --; Taking care; Joy Williams, 1982 --; Story; Lydia Davis, 1983 --; China; Charles Johnson, 1984 --; Pet milk; Stuart Dybek, 1984 --; The way we live now; Susan Sontag, 1986 --; Salvador late or early; Sandra Cisneros, 1986 --; The things they carried; Tim O'Brien, 1986 --; River of names; Dorothy Allison, 1988 --; Emergency; Denis Johnson, 1991 --; Sticks; George Saunders, 1994 --; Fiesta, 1980; Junot Díaz, 1996 --; Silence; Lucia Berlin, 1998 --; The twenty-seventh man; Nathan Englander, 1998 --; Bullet in the brain; Tobias Wolff, 1998 --; The hermit's story; Rick Bass, 1998 --; A temporary matter; Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998 --; The penthouse; Andrew Holleran, 1999 --; The fix; Percival Everett, 1999 --; Water child; Edwidge Danticat, 2000 --; The American embassy; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 --; The conductor; Aleksandar Hemon, 2005 --; St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves; Karen Russell, 2007 --; The last thing we need; Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010 --; The paper menagerie; Ken Liu, 2011 --; The dune; Stephen King, 2011 --; Diem perdidi; Julie Otsuka, 2011 --; The great silence; Ted Chiang, 2015 --; The midnight zone; Lauren Groff, 2016 --; Anyone can do it; Manuel Muñoz, 2019
N2  - "A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
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