More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women

Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Short Story Books
Book Format: Paperback

The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).



We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Pantheon.

WENDY MARTIN is chair of the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University. She is also the editor of We Are the Stories We Tell (available from Pantheon). She lives in Berkeley, California.

Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments ix

Editor’s Introduction xi
Toni Cade, "Bambara The Lesson" (1972) 3

Ann Beattie, "The Burning House" (1979) 12

Bobbie Ann Mason "Big Bertha Stories" (1982) 30

Amy Hempel, "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep" (1985) 48

Ellen Gilchrist, "Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle" (1989) 59

Stephanie Vaughn, "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog" (1990) 83

Margaret Atwood, "Hairball" (1991) 99

Amy Bloom, "Silver Water" (1991) 115

Sandra Cisneros, "Never Marry a Mexican" (1991) 126

Joyce Carol Oates, "Love, Forever" (1992) 142

Jamaica Kincaid, "Song of Roland" (1993) 146

Andrea Barrett, "The Littoral Zone" (1996) 156

Mary Gaitskill, "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" (1997) 167

Gish Jen, "Who’s Irish?" (1998) 182

Lorrie Moore, "Dance in America" (1998) 195

Lynn Freed "Ma, a Memoir" (1999) 206

Jhumpa Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter" (1999) 211

Alice McDermott, "Enough" (2000) 231

Alice Munro, "Floating Bridge" (2000) 239

ZZ Packer, "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" (2000) 265

Marisa Silver, "The Passenger" (2000) 288

Louise Erdrich, "The Shawl" (2001) 307

Andrea Lee, "The Birthday Present" (2001) 315

Grace Paley, "My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age" (2002) 334
About the Authors 345
About Wendy Martin
WENDY MARTIN is chair of the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University. She is also the editor of We Are the Stories We Tell (available from Pantheon). She lives in Berkeley, California.

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