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008 060322s2006 nyu 000 0 eng
010 _a2006009918
020 _a9780393328028 (pbk.)
020 _a0393328023 (pbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)65201384
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050 _aPS648.S5
_bF577 2006
245 0 0 _aFlash fiction forward :
_b80 very short stories /
_cedited by James Thomas and Robert Shapard.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_cc2006.
300 _a237 p. ;
_c21 cm.
505 0 _aJumper down / Don Shea -- The memory priest of the Creech people / Paul Theroux -- Sashimi cashmere / Carolyn Forde -- The Barbie birthday / Alison Townshed -- Sweet sixteen / Gary D. Wilson -- Before the bath / Ismail Kadare -- Baker's helper / Cynthia Anderson -- Rumors of myself / Steve Almond -- Mandela was late / Peter Mehlman -- Sleeping / Katharine Weber -- Traditional style Indian garage / Chrytos -- How to set a house on fire / Stace Budzko -- The jalapeno contest / Ray Gonzalez -- Currents / Hannah Bottomy -- 1951 / Richard Bausch -- Bullet / Kim Church -- Consuming the view / Luigi Malerba -- The great open mouth anti-sadness / Ron Carlson -- Things you should know / A.M. Holmes -- Rose / John Biguenet -- Tiffany / Stacey Richter -- The fallguy's fate / Robert Coover -- The cats in the prison recreation hall / Lydia Davis -- Level / Keith Scribner -- Blind fish / Melanie Rae Thon -- The voices in my head / Jack Handey -- The old truth in Costa Rica / Lon Otto -- Why you shouldn't have gone in the first place / Samantha Schoech -- Mythologies / R.L. Futrell -- Reviving Pater / John Goulet -- Bullhead / Leigh Allison Wilson -- Accident / Dave Eggers -- All girl band / Utahna Faith -- I never looked / Donald Hall -- My date with Neanderthal woman / David Galef -- Fab 4 / Jenny Hall -- The Peterson fire / Barry Gifford -- Words / John A. McCaffrey -- The black city / Leonardo Alishman -- Justice, a beginning / Grace Paley -- That could have been you / Jim Heynen -- The wallet / Andrew McCuaig -- How to end up / Jennifer A. Howard -- The orange / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- 21 / Jim Crace -- Geometry can fail us / Barbara Jacksha -- To reduce your likeihood of murder / Ander Monson -- Oliver's evolution / John Updike -- The doctor / Ann Hood -- Crazy glue / Etgar Keret -- Pledge drive / Patricia Marx -- The handbag / Michael Augustin -- A patriotic angel / Mark Budman -- What were the white things? / Amy Hempel -- Map of the lost world / James Tate -- Bill / Dan Kaplan -- The kettle / Eva Marie Ginsburg -- Quill / Tony Earley -- Nicaragua / Kirk Nesset -- Parrot talk / Kite Covne Irwin -- I didn't do that / Tom Hazuka -- What I know of your country / John Leary -- The paperboy / Sherrie Flick -- Birth / Robert Earle -- Guidebook / Christopher Merrill -- Test / G.A. Ingersoll -- Drawer / Rick Moody 00:03:36:58 / Bayard Godsave -- The good life / David Ryan -- Fruit series / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Initials etched on a dining-room table, Lockport, Nova Scotia / Peter Orner -- Mr. Nikos Nikou / Ersi Sotiropoulos -- Three soldiers / Bruce Holland Rogers -- The mesmerit / Michael Knight -- Toasters / Pamela Painter -- Diagnostic drift / Michael Martone -- You don't know anything / Kathleen Wheaten -- Traveling alone / Rob Carney -- The death of a short story / J. David Stevens.
520 _aAn anthology of bite-sized tales represents the work of some of today's best fiction writers and includes Rick Moody's definition of an armoire, Lydia Davis's sojourn into the world of cats, and Dave Eggers's exploration of narrow escapes.
650 0 _aShort stories, American.
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700 1 _aThomas, James,
_d1946-
_94859
700 1 _aShapard, Robert,
_d1942-
_94858
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006009918.html
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