Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879052651 ISBN 13: 9780879052652

Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc, 1987

Synopsis

We who love prose fiction love these miniature tales both to read and to write because they are so finite; so highly compressed and highly charged. Joyce Carol Oates

People who like to skip can't skip in a three-page story. Grace Paley

The short-short story is an exercise in virtuosity that tightens the circle of mystery surrounding what we know. John L'Heureux

It can do in a page what a novel does in two hundred. It covers years in less time, time in almost no time. It wants to deliver us to where we were before we began. Its aim is restorative, to keep us young. Mark Strand

There are, in truth, more kinds of short-short stories than I ever knew of or imagined. Wonderful! I rejoice in the richness and variety of all these voices. George Garrett

This collection represents the richness and variety of American writers. The 70 pieces themselves--highly compressed, often tantalizing--display a multiplicity of modes and derive them a variety of traditions. Publishers Weekly

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Shapard teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Hawaii, and co-edited Flash Fiction Forward.

James Thomas is the founding editor of Quarterly West and the author of Pictures, Moving, a collection of stories.

Synopsis:

Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0879052651
• ISBN 13: 9780879052652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Shapard Robert, Thomas James