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A compilation of the debut published stories of some of the twentieth century's finest writers features the work of Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anne Tyler, John Updike, James Baldwin, and others
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The first published stories by 41 famous authors including James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Alice Munro, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Ursula K. Le Guin. In the introduction, Jane Smiley writes, "What is clear from this volume ... and worth cherishing, is the astonishing uniqueness of even the most tentative of these voices." You may also enjoy, as I did, seeing how greatly the quality and confidence of these first published stories varied, and how much the character of the later writing is evident in these early pieces. This is a great anthology. --MTB
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The 41 selections in this volume (43, counting very short stories by John O'Hara and Dashiell Hammett included in the preface) are the first professionally published stories by prominent American, British and Canadian writers. A few, such as Tennessee Williams's bizarre tale of revenge, offer little evidence of future literary brilliance, but most invite thoughtful comparisons with more mature works. Shirley Jackson's "After You, My Dear Alphonse" anticipates "The Lottery" in its dramatization of ingrained but unexamined cultural assumptions. Chester Himes evokes the deadly monotony of prison life, Kurt Vonnegut explores the dilemma of a scientist who wishes to use his power for peace and David Leavitt examines tensions between a mother and her gay son. Some juvenile pieces by John Cheever, Carson McCullers and John Updike focus on the callowness of youth, while others by Margaret Atwood, Truman Capote and Flannery O'Connor capture the acute loneliness and dislocation of old age. Brief but intelligent headnotes provide information about the genesis of several stories (some reprinted here for the first time) and occasionally correct misconceptions about publication history.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0316492035
- ISBN 13 9780316492034
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages452
- EditorMoore Michael M.
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