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The Faber book of contemporary stories about childhood / edited by Lorrie Moore.

Contributor(s): Moore, Lorrie.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 1997Description: xv, 415 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0571170838.Subject(s): Children -- Fiction | Short stories, American | American fiction -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 813
Contents:
Glenda Adams Lies -- Margaret Atwood Betty -- Toni Cade Bambara Gorilla, My love -- Charles Baxter Gryphon -- John Bennett Flat Creek Road -- Catherine Brady Daley's Girls -- Sandra Cisneros My Lucy Friend who smells like corn -- Sandra Cisneros Barbie-Q -- Jennifer C. Cornell Undertow -- Charles D'Ambrosio Jr The Point -- D. J. Durnam I know some things -- Louise Erdich Saint Marie -- Max Garland Signs and Wonders -- Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan -- Spalding Gray Sex and Death to the Age -- Romesh Gunesekera Kolla -- Kirsty Gunn Tinsel Bright -- Jamica Kincaid Gwen -- Richard McCann My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame -- Peter Meinke The Ponoes -- Leonard Michaels Murderers -- Susan Minot Hiding -- Alice Munro The Turkey Season -- Lewis Nordan Sugar Among the Chickens -- Edna O'Brien My Mother's Mother -- Ben Okri A Bizarre Courtship -- Catherine Petroski Beautiful My Mane in the Wind -- Sheila Schwartz Out-of-the-Body Travel -- Linda Svendsen Up late -- Marly Swick Heart -- Amy Tan Rules of the Game -- Stephanie Vaughn Dog Heaven -- Richard Yates, Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 813 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00070266
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An anthology of stories about childhood. Contemporary writers present the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Each story is told by a child character or by the adult who was that child.

Glenda Adams Lies -- Margaret Atwood Betty -- Toni Cade Bambara Gorilla, My love -- Charles Baxter Gryphon -- John Bennett Flat Creek Road -- Catherine Brady Daley's Girls -- Sandra Cisneros My Lucy Friend who smells like corn -- Sandra Cisneros Barbie-Q -- Jennifer C. Cornell Undertow -- Charles D'Ambrosio Jr The Point -- D. J. Durnam I know some things -- Louise Erdich Saint Marie -- Max Garland Signs and Wonders -- Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan -- Spalding Gray Sex and Death to the Age -- Romesh Gunesekera Kolla -- Kirsty Gunn Tinsel Bright -- Jamica Kincaid Gwen -- Richard McCann My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame -- Peter Meinke The Ponoes -- Leonard Michaels Murderers -- Susan Minot Hiding -- Alice Munro The Turkey Season -- Lewis Nordan Sugar Among the Chickens -- Edna O'Brien My Mother's Mother -- Ben Okri A Bizarre Courtship -- Catherine Petroski Beautiful My Mane in the Wind -- Sheila Schwartz Out-of-the-Body Travel -- Linda Svendsen Up late -- Marly Swick Heart -- Amy Tan Rules of the Game -- Stephanie Vaughn Dog Heaven -- Richard Yates, Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lorrie Moore was born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957 in Glen Falls, New York. She was nicknamed Lorrie by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University and won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest. After graduation, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years. In 1980 she enrolled in Cornell University's M.F.A. program. After graduation from Cornell she was encouraged by a teacher to contact an agent who sold her collection, Self-Help, which was composed of stories from her master's thesis. Lorrie Moore writes about failing relationships and terminal illness. She is the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches creative writing. She has also taught at Cornell University. She has written a children's book entitled The Forgotten Helper. She won the 1998 O. Henry Award for her short story People Like That They Are the Only People Here. In 1999 she was given the Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 and in 2010 her novel A Gate at the stairs was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction.

(Bowker Author Biography)