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Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers--those born after 1937--to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.
Featured writers include:
• Ama Ata Aidoo
• Julia Alvarez
• Martin Amis
• Margaret Atwood
• Russell Banks
• Julian Barnes
• Ann Beattie
• T. C. Boyle
• Peter Carey
• Angela Carter
• Vikram Chandra
• Edwidge Danticat
• Daniele del Giudice
• Junot D'az
• Nathan Englander
• Peter Esterhazy
• Richard Ford
• Peter Hoeg
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Bobbie Ann Mason
• Ian McEwan
• Lorrie Moore
• Murathan Mungan
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Ben Okri
• Amos Oz
• Salman Rushdie
• Graham Swift
• Tobias Wolff
• Can Xue
Great variety of styles and traditions
| Customer Rating:   | | Fantastic collection of contemporary short stories from around the world. I love the variety of styles and traditions represented in this one volume. |
In bad taste
| Customer Rating: | As a teacher at an international school, I was looking forward to an anthology of stories from around the world. I was disappointed to find a large number of stories which were simply in bad taste. Although there are some high-quality stories here, there are also some truly offensive ones.
For me, the book was not even worth keeping. Save yourself the trouble of ordering this one. |
Very Pleased
| Customer Rating: | | I was very pleased with this book. It was the exact book I needed for class and it was brand new. The price was great too! |
An Excellent Compilation of International Short Stories!!!!
| Customer Rating: | Daniel Halpern has compiled and edited a great anthology of short stories from countries like Ghana, Lebanon, United States, England; Cuba, Canada; Australia, Martinique, India, Haiti, Italy, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Russia, Hungary, Somalia, Uruguay, France, Tanzania, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Ireland, Wales, Morocco, Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, Israel, Germany, Kenya, Argentina, South AFrica, and China. The authors include known and some unknown like
Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana;
Hanan Al-Shaykh from Lebanon;
Julia Alvarez, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, T. Coraghessen Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Richard Ford, Barry Hannah, Edward P. Jones, Bobbie Ann Mason, Steven Millhauser, Lorrie Moore, Mary Morris, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Edmund White, John Edgar Wideman, Joy Williams, Jeanne Wilmot, and Tobias Wolff from the United States;
Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Jim Crace, Patricia Duncker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, and Rose Tremain, and Jeanette Winterson from England;
Reinaldo Arenas from Cuba;
Margaret Atwood from Canada;
Peter Carey from Australia;
Patrick Chamoiseau from Martinique;
Vikram Chandra, Bharati Mukherjee from India;
Edwidge Danticat from Haiti;
Daniele del Giudice, Antonio Tabucchi from Italy;
Junot Diaz from the Dominican Republic;
Duon Thu Huong from Vietnam;
Victor Erofeyev, Victor Pelevin, Tatyana Tolstaya, from Russia;
Peter Esterhazy from Hungary;
Nuruddin Farah from Somalia;
Eduardo Galeano from Uruguay;
Herve Guibert from France;
Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania;
Peter Hoeg from Denmark;
Pawel Huelle from Poland;
Roy Jacobsen from Norway;
James Kelman from Scotland;
Torgny Lindgren from Sweden;
Colum McCann from Ireland;
Ian McEwan from Wales;
Mohammed Mrabet from Morocco;
Murathan Mungan from Turkey;
Haruki Murakami, Banana Yorshimoto from Japan;
Ben Okri, Ken Sao-Wiwa from Nigeria;
Amos Oz from Israel;
Ingo Schulze from Germany;
Ngai wa Thiong'o from Kenya;
Luisa Valenzuela from Argentina;
Zoe Wicomby from South Africa;
Can Zue from China;
The book concludes with biographical notes from each author. |
Excellent textbook for writing course
| Customer Rating: | | I have been using this book for over a year now for the story writing course I tutor online. The very wide range and style of stories makes it ideal for this purpose and helps to stimulate discussion. I have also had very positive feedback from students: None regretted purchasing the book. The most popular story without a doubt proved to be Nicola Barker's "G-String". :) There are some very strong showings here from Al-Shaykh, Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Olen Butler, Peter Carey, Lydia Davis, N. Englander, Richard Ford, Pawel Huelle, Edward P. Jones, C. McCann, Bobbie Ann Mason, Mary Morris, H. Murakami, Francine Prose, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Tatyana Tolstaya, L. Valenzuela, Tobias Wolff ... and others. A few stories made me scratch my head as to why they had been selected; but overall this is a challenging, diverse, high-voltage anthology. Even if you read short stories compulsively, you're bound to discover some new writers or rediscover a writer you thought you knew. |
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