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9780195412208

The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195412208

  • ISBN10:

    0195412206

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-02-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Canadian short story - widely recognized as a distinctive andunusually strong genre in the creative literature of the country - wascelebrated in 1986 with the publication of The Oxford Book of Canadian ShortStories in English. Published to great acclaim, the original collection hasbeen a great commercial success. It is here revised and updated to reflect theincreasing diversity of the genre, and the growing reputation of a newgeneration of writers.Of the original inclusions, eight were dropped and thirteen replaced. Eighteenwriters (among them Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, Timothy Findley, W.P. Kinsella,and Audrey Thomas) are represented by different stories. Writers appearing forthe first time include Caroline Adderson, Ann Copeland, Bonnie Burnard, CynthiaFlood, Barbara Gowdy, Thomas King, Rohinton Mistry, Diane Schoemperlen, andLinda Svendsen.

Author Biography


About the Editors:
Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer, the author most recently of the The Handmaid's Tale and The Robber Bride. Robert Weaver, now retired from his 30-year career as executive producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has edited more than a dozen anthologies.

Table of Contents

Haply the Soul of My Grandmother
All the Years of Her Life
The Wedding Gift
The Lamp at Noon
The Old Woman
One-Two-Three Little Indians
Scarves, Beads, Sandals
Something Happened Here
The Mask of the Bear
The Bully
Getting to Williamstown
The Duel in Cluny Park
The Jack Randa Hotel
The End of Summer
Griff!
Share and Share Alike
The Woman Who Talked to Horses
Where Is the Voice Coming From?
The Hayfield
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Milk Bread Beer Ice
Bear Country
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
The Black Queen
The Years in Exile
True Trash
God Is Not a Fish Inspector
A Class of New Canadians
The Meaning of the Marriage
Flowers for Weddings and Funerals
Trotsky's First Confessions
Celia Behind Me
One Good Story, That One
Deer Heart
For Puzzled in Wisconsin
Swain Corliss, Hero of Malcolm's Mills (Now Oakland, Ontario), November 6, 1814
Making It
Sociology
We So Seldom Look on Love
Dancing Bear
The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
Sans Souci
Transfigurations
Red Plaid Shirt
White Shoulders
Digging Up the Mountains
The Chmarnyk
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