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1 9 m m S p i 6” Front Panel 4.5” Rear Flap 6” Rear Panel n 4.5” Front Flap e Uncorrected galley proof $14.95 U.S.U.S. S Margaret Bishop received a BA from Wesleyan Single Scene Short Stories includes works by the following: I University and an MFA from George Mason University. N She lives and writes in northern Virginia. Single Scene John Barth Jack London G SINGLE SCENE Short Stories is her first book. Jorge Luis Borges Katherine Mansfield L T. Coraghessan Boyle Guy de Maupassant E Short Stories Fred Busch Lorrie Moore Edited by Margaret Bishop Robert Olen Butler Joyce Carol Oates S C Ron Carlson Dorothy Parker E Raymond Carver Grace Paley N Michael Chabon Katherine Anne Porter What is a single scene short story? It is a short work of E Anton Chekhov Mary Robison fiction with a specific remarkable quality—the whole of Colette James Salter S the story takes place in one scene, one geographical coor- Ernest Hemingway John Updike H dinate, one window of time. To think of it dramatically, it O Amy Hempel William Carlos Williams is a story presented on a stage with no change of setting 9 ” H James Joyce Tobias Wolff R or costume, no voice-over summarizing or carrying the e i g h Doris Lessing T viewer from here to there. This collection contains some t of the best single scene short stories ever written, the S modern classics of the form. T Single Scene Short Stories includes the works of such O well-known writers as Michael Chabon, Anton Chekhov, R Raymond Carver, Mary Gaitskill, Ernest Hemingway, I E James Joyce, Guy de Maupassant, Joyce Carol Oates, S Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, William Carlos Williams, Tobias SINGLE SCENE Wolff, and many others. These stories will rivet you, move Fiction you, and unfold in you an awakening and recognition of Short Stories what it is to be human. With the barest allowable back story—just a thin line here or there to locate you to the to enrich and inspire humankind ISBN 13: 978-1-4236-0062-6 Edited by Margaret Bishop character or situation—these stories give us in a brief ISBN 10: 1-4236-0062-2 glimpse all the best that fiction has to offer. www.gibbs-smith.com.

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