Art of the Story : An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories

by Various (Author); Halpern, Daniel (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140296389
• ISBN10: 0140296387
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers-those born after 1937-to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
A Gift from Somewhere	1	(8)
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Keeper of the Virgins	9	(6)
Hanan Al-Shaykh
Amor Divino	15	(10)
Julia Alverez
The Immortals	25	(8)
Martin Amis
The Glass Tower	33	(9)
Reinaldo Arenas
Wilderness Tips	42	(16)
Margaret Atwood
Gorilla, My Love	58	(5)
Toni Cade Bambara
My Mother's Memoirs, My Father's Lie, and Other True Stories	63	(6)
Russell Banks
G-String	69	(4)
Nicola Barker
Evermore	73	(12)
Julian Barnes
Aren't You Happy for Me?	85	(11)
Richard Bausch
In Amalfi	96	(10)
Ann Beattie
Rara Avis	106	(4)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Mr. Green	110	(8)
Robert Olen Butler
The Fat Man in History	118	(19)
Peter Carey
The Courtship of Mr. Lyon	137	(9)
Angela Carter
Are These Actual Miles?	146	(6)
Raymond Carver
The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff	152	(10)
Patrick Chamoiseau
Dharma	162	(17)
Vikram Chandra
Never Mary a Mexican	179	(10)
Sandra Cisneros
The Prospect from the Silver Hills	189	(7)
Jim Crace
Night Women	196	(3)
Edwidge Danticat
The House Behind	199	(4)
Lydia Davis
All Because of the Mistake	203	(8)
Daniele del Giudice
Ysrael	211	(9)
Junot Diaz
Betrayal	220	(7)
Patricia Duncker
Reflections of Spring	227	(6)
Duong Thu Huong
The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor	233	(15)
Deborah Eisenberg
The Twenty-seventh Man	248	(13)
Nathan Englander
The Parakeet	261	(9)
Victor Erofeyev
Roberto Narrates	270	(6)
Peter Esterhazy
My Father, the Englishman, and I	276	(3)
Nuruddin Farah
Optimists	279	(12)
Richard Ford
The Story of the Lizard Who Had the Habit of dining on His Wives	291	(4)
Eduardo Galeano
The Hammam	295	(3)
Herve Guilbert
Escort	298	(9)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet	307	(9)
Barry Hannah
Portrait of the Avant-Garde	316	(15)
Peter Hoeg
Moving House	331	(7)
Pawel Huelle
A Family Supper	338	(8)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Encounter	346	(3)
Roy Jacobsen
The First Day	349	(4)
Edward P. Jones
Remember Young Cecil	353	(8)
James Kelman
Intimacy	361	(12)
Hanif Kureishi
The Stump-Grubber	373	(7)
Torgny Lindgren
Wish	380	(7)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Everything in This Country Must	387	(6)
Colum McCann
Pornography	393	(11)
Ian McEwan
Behind the Blue Curtain	404	(7)
Steven Millhauser
Willing	411	(13)
Lorrie Moore
The Lifeguard	424	(8)
Mary Morris
The Canebrake	432	(3)
Mohammed Mrabet
The Management of Grief	435	(13)
Bharati Mukherjee
Muradhan and Selvihan or The Tale of the Crystal Kiosk	448	(5)
Murathan Mungan
The Elephant Vanishes	453	(13)
Haruki Murakami
Mark of Satan	466	(11)
Joyce Carol Oates
In Shadow of War	477	(4)
Ben Okri
Where the Jackals Howl	481	(13)
Amos Oz
The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII	494	(8)
Victor Pelevin
Talking Dog	502	(11)
Francine Prose
The Free Radio	513	(6)
Salman Rushdie
Africa Kills Her Sun	519	(8)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Ring	527	(7)
Ingo Schulze
Learning to Swim	534	(12)
Graham Swift
A Riddle	546	(11)
Antonio Tabucchi
Minutes of Glory	557	(10)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
On the Golden Porch	567	(6)
Tatyana Tolstaya
John-Jin	573	(5)
Rose Tremain
Who, Me a Bum?	578	(2)
Luisa Valenzuela
Cinnamon Skin	580	(11)
Edmund White
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town	591	(11)
Zoe Wicomb
Doc's Story	602	(6)
John Edgar Wideman
The Farm	608	(10)
Joy Williams
Diet Angel	618	(11)
Jeanne Wilmot
The Green Man	629	(8)
Jeanette Winterson
The Night in Question	637	(7)
Tobias Wolff
The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes	644	(6)
Can Xue
Helix	650	(6)
Banana Yoshimoto
Biographical Notes	656