The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English

Book 1995

"The distinction of the Canadian short story - genre that boasts two of the leading short-story writers in English, Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant - has been recognized internationally, and was celebrated in 1986 by the publication of the acclaimed first edition of this book, of which over 42,000 copies are now in print."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

9780195410259
0195412206
0195410254

Description:

xv, 462 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Canadian short stories

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-460) and index

Contents:

Haply the soul of my grandmother / Ethel Wilson
All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan
The wedding gift / Thomas H. Raddall
The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross
The old woman / Joyce Marshall
One-two-three little Indians / Hugh Garner
Scarves, beads, sandals / Mavis Gallant
Something happened here / Norman Levine
The mask of the bear / Margaret Laurence
The bully / James Reaney
Getting to Williamstown / Hugh Hood
The duel in Cluny Park / Timothy Findley
The Jack Randa Hotel / Alice Munro
The end of summer / Jane Rule
Griff! / Austin C. Clarke
Share and share alike / Marian Engel
The woman who talked to horses / Leon Rooke
Where is the voice coming from? / Rudy Wiebe
The hayfield / George Bowering
Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella
Milk bread beer ice / Carol Shields
Bear country / Audrey Thomas
As birds bring forth the sun / Alistair MacLeod
The black queen / Barry Callaghan
The years in exile / John Metcalf
True trash / Margaret Atwood
God is not a fish inspector / W.D. Valgardson
A class of new Canadians / Clark Blaise
The meaning of the marriage / Cynthia Flood
Flowers for weddings and funerals / Sandra Birdsell
Trotsky's first confessions / Matt Cohen
Celia behind me / Isabel Huggan
One good story, that one / Thomas King
Deer heart / Bonnie Burnard
For Puzzled in Wisconsin / Bronwen Wallace
Swain Corliss, hero of Malcolm's Mills (now Oakland, Ontario) November 6, 1814 / Douglas Glover
Making it / Margaret Gibson
Sociology / Katherine Govier
We so seldom look on love / Barbara Gowdy
Dancing bear / Guy Vanderhaeghe
The ghost of Firozsha Baag / Rohinton Mistry
Sans Souci / Dionne Brand
Transfigurations / Janice Kulyk Keefer
Red plaid shirt / Diane Schoemperlen
White shoulders / Linda Svendsen
Digging up the mountains / Neil Bissoondath
The chmarnyk / Caroline Adderson

LCCN:

96126723

Control Number:

56660

Other Authors:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Weaver, Robert, 1921-2008

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