Screen LibraryFlash fiction America : 73 very short stories /
"It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flas...
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| Published: |
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Brian Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 270 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780393358056 0393358054 |
| Index Number: | PS648 |
| CLC: | I712.73 |
| Call Number: | I712.73/F585-1 |
| Contents: |
Origin lessons / Boxing day / Bruise / Some hard, hot places / Family / A notion I took / My X / A sailor / Something falls in the night / Seconds / Exotics / How many / Not Daniel / Beach town / When Chase prays chocolate / The gospel of Guy No-Horse / I'm on the side of the wildebeest / Jenny watches The exorcist / Sink monkey / The touch / At the taxidermy museum of military heroes / The white girl / Skin / Bigsby / Over there / The pregnancy game / Monsters / The weatherman's heart / Shit Cassandra saw that she didn't tell the Trojans because at that point fuck them anyway / Customer service at the karaoke Don Quixote / Bone wars / The logic of the loaded heart / The art of losing / Dimetrodon / Gray / Good boys / I'm exaggerating / The beauty and the bat / James Brown is alive and doing laundry in Lake Tahoe / Nothing is ever one thing / The combat photographer / Solo / Dear Nnamdi / Scrape / Why I could never be boogie / Rhythm / Radio water / An alternate theory regarding natural disasters, as posited by the teenage girls of Clove County, Kansas / Pounds across America / Beethoven's Fifth in C minor / The kiss / Amelia / 23 men / Varieties of disturbance / High on the divide / Willing / Misty blue waters / Emmy vs. the bellies / The one-eyed bat! / Theo & Annie / Walking on ice / All your fragile history / Hached / Lobster / David Hasselhoff is from Baltimore / Sketches of the school staff in Winesburg, Indiana / How to write a hardship letter / Gloria / Chew / Tall grass / How to be a conqueror / The solution to Brian's problem / Never-never time / |