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    <body><![CDATA[Anthology of stories by N.American women since 1945 -- really powerful pieces. Flannery O'Connor's &quot;View of the Woods&quot; struck me in a way no story had in a long time. I'll have to go look that one up again!<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[26 different short stories told by some of my favorite writers.<br/>Alice Munro<br/>Margaret Atwood <br/>Anne Tyler<br/>Joyce Carol Oates and Tama Janowitz to name a few]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We Are the Stories We Tell by Wendy Martin (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, thought-provoking, often humorous short stories by great American female authors. I'm always impressed with writers of short stories. To be able to write a complete, fully-developed story in so few pages must be quite a challenge. If you enjoy short stories, this is a great book to try.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7099415">more...</a>]]></body>
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