The Decameron project 29 new stories from the pandemic

Large Print 2021

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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COVID-19 (Disease) Fiction

Short stories, American

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ISBN:

9781432886769
1432886762

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

371 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
large print

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 Tóibín
Clinical notes / Liz Moore
The team / Tommy Orange
The rock / Leïla Slimani
Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood
Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li
Outside / Etgar Keret
Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan
The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner
The morningside / Téa 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
The time of death, the death of time / Julián 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:

3075880

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