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Why I Like This Story (Hardcover): Jackson R. Bryer Why I Like This Story (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer; Contributions by A.R. Gurney, Alan Cheuse, Alice McDermott, Andre Dubus, …
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

Love Course (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Love Course (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R97 Discovery Miles 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A female professor has been teaching a course on the literature of love with a younger male colleague.

Rape of Bunny Stuntz (Paperback, Samuel French Acting ed.): A.R. Gurney Rape of Bunny Stuntz (Paperback, Samuel French Acting ed.)
A.R. Gurney
R61 Discovery Miles 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 2 female

Interior Set

An efficient suburban matron, chairing an evening meeting, finds that she has to cope with a strange, offstage intruder who claims he knows her. The meeting degenerates step by step into a wild party, even as the intruder becomes increasingly insistent and insulting to the leader. Ultimately, the lady finds herself confessing to the lure of a liaison with this representative from the under side of society, and by going off with him, she manages to appease whatever it is that tears groups apart.

O Jerusalem (Paperback): A.R. Gurney O Jerusalem (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Old One-two (Paperback): A.R. Gurney The Old One-two (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sylvia (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Sylvia (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Darlene & the Guest Lecturer (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Darlene & the Guest Lecturer (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Far East (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Far East (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buffalo Gal (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Buffalo Gal (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Strictly Academic (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Strictly Academic (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Light Lunch (Paperback): A.R. Gurney A Light Lunch (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Post Mortem (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Post Mortem (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indian Blood (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Indian Blood (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crazy Mary (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Crazy Mary (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Screen Play (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Screen Play (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Big Bill (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Big Bill (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mrs Farnsworth (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Mrs Farnsworth (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancestral Voices (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Ancestral Voices (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Human Events (Paperback): A.R. Gurney Human Events (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dining Room (Paperback): A.R. Gurney The Dining Room (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room, the hub of social family life, comprising a mosaic of interrelated scenes, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes rueful, which together create a profound study of the decaying mores of the American WASP.3 women, 3 men

The Cocktail Hour (Paperback): A.R. Gurney The Cocktail Hour (Paperback)
A.R. Gurney
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a mixture of gentle comic poignancy and dramatic tension, one of America's leading contemporary playwrights here examines the problems which arise when John, a leading playwright, returns home to ask his parent's permission to produce his latest work, a play about his family. The Cocktail Hour had a long and successful run in New York and successful tours in both the UK and Australia.2 women, 2 men

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