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This superb and absorbing collection of short stories has been chosen by the acclaimed writer and novelist Susan Hill to reflect the excellence and diversity of women writers. Appearing alongside established short-story writers - Katherine Mansfield, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty - are newer writers such as Roxana Robinson, Catherine Merriman and Andrea Barrett whose work is fresh and equally exciting, showing that literary excellence is not restricted to the well known.
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`Satisfyingly wide-ranging, evidence that women are our remembrancers ... in remarkable feats of story-telling' - The Times; `The writers in this collection, as really good writers do, defy allattempts to categorise them' - Fay Weldon in the Mail on Sunday; `Susan Hill's Contemporary Women's Short Stories is full of competent, even graceful, fictions' - The Times Literary Supplement
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Susan Hill's novels include In the Springtime of the Year and Air and Angels. She has written three volumes of short stories, The Albatross and Other Stories, A Bit of Singing and Dancing and Listening to the Orchestra. Her two companion anthologies, The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories and The Penguin Book of Women's Short Stories were published in 1991 and 1995 respectively.
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0718139313
- ISBN 13 9780718139315
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
- EditorHill Susan
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