TY - BOOK AU - Halpern,Daniel TI - The Art of the tale: an international anthology of short stories SN - 0140079491 (pbk.) AV - PN 6120.2 A784 1987 U1 - 808.83/1 PY - 1987/// CY - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. PB - Penguin Books KW - Short stories KW - Fiction KW - 20th century N1 - "Elisabeth Sifton books."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [817]-[820]); Sacrificial egg; C. Achebe --; Bound man; I. Aichinger --; Little whale, varnisher of reality; V. Aksenov --; Hair jewellery; M. Atwood --; Everything; I. Bachman --; Going to meet the man; J. Baldwin --; Child screams and looks back at you; R. Banks --; Cortes and Montezuma; D. Barthelme --; Jacklighting; A. Beattie --; First love; S. Beckett --; Action will be taken; H. Boll --; Do stay, giraffe; W. Borchert --; Aleph; J.L. Borges --; This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen; T. Borowski --; Cowardice; A. Boulaich --; A distant episode; P. Bowles --; Greasy Lake; T.C. Boyle --; Ceil; H. Brodkey --; Seven floors; D. Buzzati --; Adventure of a traveler; I. Calvino --; Adulterous woman; A. Camus --; Children on their birthdays; T. Capote --; Fat; R. Carver --; Country husband; J. Cheever --; Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl; R. Coover --; Bestiary; J. Cortazar --; Heile Selassie funeral train; G. Davenport; (cont.); Cloak; I. Dinesen --; Hunter; E.L. Doctorow --; I look out for Ed Wolfe; S. Elkin --; Communist; R. Ford --; Doll queen; C. Fuentes --; Chosen husband; M. Gallant --; Order of insects; W. Gass --; Mother; N. Ginzberg --; Life of the imagination; N. Gordimer --; Two gentle people; G. Greene --; Why I transformed myself into a nightingale; W. Hildescheimer --; One arm; Y. Kawabata --; Let the old dead make room for the young dead; M. Kundera --; Gogol's wife; T. Landolfi --; Habit of loving; D. Lessing --; Challenge; M. Vargas Llosa --; Conjurer made off with the disk; N. Mahfouz --; Last Mohican; B. Malamud --; Pilgrimage; W. Maxwell --; First love, last rites; I. McEwan --; The deal; L. Michaels --; Patriotism; Y. Mishima; Jewellery; A. Moravia --; Doctor Safi; M. Mrabet --; Spring in Fialta; V. Nabokov --; Naga; R.K. Narayan --; The tryst; J.C. Oates --; Sister Imelda; E. O'Brien --; Artificial nigger; F. O'Connor --; A set of variations on a borrowed theme; F. O'Connor --; Nomad and viper; A. Oz --; Suitcase; C. Ozick --; Contest; G. Paley --; Suicides; C. Pavese --; Saint; V.S. Pritchett --; Eventide; J. Purdy --; Replacement; A. Robbe-Grillet --; Rain; M. Rodoreda --; In the garden; L. Rooke --; Talpa; J. Rulfo --; XXII; N. Sarraute --; Henne fire; I. Bashevis Singer --; Unguided tour; S. Sontag --; Children are bored on Sunday; J. Stafford --; Friend and protector; P. Taylor --; Death and the maiden; M. Tournier --; Beyond the pale; W. Trevor --; Separating; J. Updike --; I'm your horse in the night; L. Valenzuela --; No place for you, my love; E. Welty --; Five-twenty; P. White --; Hunters in the snow; T. Wolff --; Big black good man; R. Wright --; Best of everything; R. Yates ER -