Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684838362 ISBN 13: 9780684838366

Publisher: Touchstone, 1998

Synopsis

Gathered from 100 different workshops, these remarkably diverse stories possess the quality of works by more established authors, while offering the pleasure of discovering the unpredictable and irresistible voices of an up-and-coming generation .

About this title

About the Author:

Sherman Alexie is the author of RESERVATION BLUES and INDIAN KILLER as well as a screenwriter and producer.

From Publishers Weekly:

For many years, it seemed that young writers took the dictum "write what you know" as a license to create endless highly personalized stories of suburban malfeasance. Judging from this collection, those days are long gone. Not every work is flawless?there are awkward dialogues and oblique narratives that are more maladroit than experimental. Whatever their faults, however, most of the 22 contributors here are willing to imagine being someone else, somewhere else. Some of the best stories are surrealistically inventive: Natasha Waxman's account of a college dropout's transmogrification into a primitive state; Tenaya Rahel Darlington's eerie tale of Poe-like obsession; Christopher A. Pasetto's slyly funny story of a teenage conspiracy theorist's first love. And even the less magical contributions dare to go beyond the merely confessional, as authors tackle characters of the opposite sex and wildly varying ages. At its strongest and weakest, the second installment in this series is heartening evidence of courage in the classroom and on the page.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684838362
• ISBN 13: 9780684838366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Kulka John, Danford Natalie, Shields Carol