The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English
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The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English
Oxford University Press, 1997, c1995
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Canadian short stories
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Includes index
Contents of Works
- 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
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Description
Following on from the success of The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, published to great acclaim in 1986, Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver have compiled an updated anthology that reflects the increasing diversity of the genre, and the growing reputation of a new generation of writers. Featuring 45 stories, including new stories by 18 of the writers featured in the original - The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories offers an engaging survey of Canada's leading writers and finest short stories. Here readers will find gems by W. P. Kinsella, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findlay, Matt Cohen, and such renowned authors as Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood herself.
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