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- Very Good in Very Good jacket. BV3-A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Pam Houston on her page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered scratches, light stains and rubbing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some light stains and foxing on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Contributions by Lee K. Abbott, Steve Adams, Sherman Alexie, Cathryn Alpert, Margaret Atwood, Charles Baxter, Madison Smartt Bell, Mitch Berman, Kenneth Bernard, Margaret Broucek, Robert Olen Butler, Ron Carlson, Andrei Codrescu, William deBuys, Don DeLillo, Stephen Dixon, Yahya Gharagozlou, Dagoberto Gilb, Molly Giles, Merrill Gilfillan, Traci L. Gourdine, Lynn Grossman, Joy Harjo, Ursula Hegi, Robin Hemley, Allen Hibbard, Pam Houston, Shelley Hunt, Denis Johnson, Pagan Kennedy, Andrew Lam, David Leavitt, Bret Lott, Daniel Lyons, Milos Macourek, Clarence Major, Marcel Marien, Michael Martone, William Maxwell, Thomas McGuane, Peter Meinke, W.S. Merwin, Mario Robert Morales, Charlotte Painter, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Barry Peters, Richard Plant, Luis Arturo Ramos, Mark Richard, Bruce Holland Rogers, Salarrue (Salazar Arrue), Fernando Sorrentino, Terese Svoboda, Mary Swan, Judy Troy, Alice Walker, Sylvia Watanabe, Glen Weldon, Allen Woodman, Barry Yourgrau. 8.5"x6", 311 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Succinct, superior, surprising-it all adds up to Sudden Fiction (Continued), a stellar collection of sixty short-shorts from the editors of Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International. Remember Sudden Fiction International-that bounty of short-short stories from all over the world? Literary folks loved them. Students carried the book around with them. And people on the run found the length of each story (no more than 2000 words) perfect respites from their busy lives. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Shapard and Thomas consulted nearly two-hundred magazines and chose the sixty stories, written in English or translated, that they considered best. Ranging across countries and cultures, the selection includes a number of new stories from the Pacific Rim. Well-known writers-William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Mark Richard-join lesser-known writers-Molly Giles, Andrew Lam, Judy Troy-who will be (or should be) better known. Each story revels in its own element of surprise; each, whether traditional or experimental, proves that a tale told quickly offers pleasure long past its telling. Students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read.
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