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More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
by
Wendy Martin ,
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Joyce Carol Oates, Louise Erdrich
The second collectiondrawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisiteexamples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).
We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Pantheon....more
We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Pantheon....more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
April 27th 2004
by Pantheon
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Today my Japanese ESL student and I chose this book from the shelves of our library. It seems that with all of our activities, the choice of a short story anthology would be wisest.We agreed that our mutual decision proved to be most satisfactory upon our completion of the very first story.
Silver Water, by Amy Bloom, told of a family struggling with a young daughter's schizophrenia. It was evident in this brief tale the frustration, sadness and yearning they were experiencing. Nevertheless, Bloo...more
Silver Water, by Amy Bloom, told of a family struggling with a young daughter's schizophrenia. It was evident in this brief tale the frustration, sadness and yearning they were experiencing. Nevertheless, Bloo...more
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Although I didn't particularly enjoy this collection, it's not because Wendy Martin has cherrypicked stories that are too culturally varied for me to be able to relate to on some deeper level. In fact, that is the best thing going for this book. It really takes a gander at writing from a wide range of mitigated groups of women. Interesting.
It is unfortunate that the stories that move Martin are not ones that move me. I don't know why. I generally found them boring and somewhat flimsy. I can thin...more
It is unfortunate that the stories that move Martin are not ones that move me. I don't know why. I generally found them boring and somewhat flimsy. I can thin...more
This is a great anthology of stories written by American women. Its collection has a good variety of writers from all areas of the American cultural experience that many anthologies tend leave out and focus on a more white American experience.
A gem of a collection! A chilling 4 page Oates story that read like a psychological horror film intermixed with the likes of Andrea Lee and Margaret Atwood allows for the perfect nightcap or subway companion.
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