The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic

Book 2020

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."

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Short stories, American

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Fiction Short stories

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ISBN:

9781982170790
1982170794

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition

Description:

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Other Title:

New York times

Contents:

Preface / Caitlin Roper
Introduction / Rivka Galchen
Recognition / Victor LaValle
A blue sky like this / Mona Awad
The walk / Kamila Shamsie
Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin
Clinical notes / Liz Moore
The team / Tommy Orange
The rock / Leila Slimani
Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood
Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li
Outside / Edgar Keret
Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan
The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner
The morningside / Tea Obreht
Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra
How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu
Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell
If wishes was horses / David Mitchell
Systems / Charles Yu
The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano
An obliging robber / Mia Couto
Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala
The cellar / Dina Nayeri
That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami
A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks
Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon
Origin story / Matthew Baker
To the wall/ Esi Edugyan
Barcelona : open city / John Wray
One thing / Edwidge Danticat

Control Number:

2995396

Other Authors:

Hollington, Sophy, illustrator

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