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Informationen zum Autor James Moffett is an author and educator. His works include Points of Departure, Points of View, Teaching the Universe of Discourse, and Storm in the Mountains , among many others. The recipient of the California Association of Teachers of English's Distinguished Author Award and the Carnegie Corporation Grant, Moffett has taught at Harvard; San Diego State University; University of California, Berkeley; and Middlebury College. Klappentext Since its original publication in 1966! this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness! and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater. Zusammenfassung Since its original publication in 1966! this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness! and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface INTERIOR MONOLOGUE A Telephone Call Dorothy Parker I Stand Here Ironing Tillie Olsen DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE Straight Pool John OHara The Lady's Maid Katherine Mansfield ...& Answers Joyce Carol Oates LETTER NARRATION Inter-Office Rosellen Brown A Bundle of Letters Henry James A Wilderness Station Alice Munro Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General Ambrose Bierce DIARY NARRATION The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book V. S. Naipaul Amahl and the Night Visitors Lorrie Moore SUBJECTIVE NARRATION The Somebody Danny Santiago My Side of the Matter Truman Capote My Sister's Marriage Cynthia Marshall Rich Why, You Reckon? Langston Hughes A & P John Updike Distance Grace Paley DETACHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods Toni Cade Bambara The Circuit Francisco Jimenez First Confession Frank O'Connor A Coupla Scalped Indians Ralph Ellison Birthday David Wong Louie The Passing Durango Mendoza MEMOIR, OR OBSERVER NARRATION The Voice from the Wall Amy Tan Country Jayne Anne Phillips Scales Louise Erdrich The Bridle Raymond Carver The Eggs of the World Toshio Mori ANONYMOUS NARRATION: SINGLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW The Five-Forty-Eight John Cheever The Stone Boy Gina Berriault Doby's Gone Ann Petry Act of Faith Irwin Shaw Come Out the Wilderness James Baldwin ANONYMOUS NARRATION: DUAL CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW Sinking House T. Coraghessan Boyle The Only Rose Sarah Orne Jewett Strong Horse Tea Alice Walker Uglypuss Margaret Atwood ANONYMOUS NARRATION: MULTIPLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW Fever Flower Shirley Ann Grau The Suicides of Private Greaves James Moffett Inez Merle Hodge ANONYMOUS NARRATION: NO CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW A New Window Display Nicholosa Mohr The Lottery Shirley Jackson Powerhouse Eudora Welty Afterword References Related Works by James Moffett Acknowledgments ...
