THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF
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IN ENGLISH
SELECTED BY MARGARET ATWOOD & ROBERT WEAVER
Toronto Oxford New York OXFORD UKIVERSITY PRESS 1995 Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
INTRODUCTION By Margaret Atwood x i i
ETHEL WILSON MARGARET LAURENCE • •• (1888-198O) (1926-1987) Haply the Soul of My Grandmother 1 The Mask of the Bear 76
MORLEY CALLAGHAN JAMES REANEY (19O3-199O) (1926) All the Years of Her Life 9 The Bully 92
THOMAS H. RADDALL HUGH HOOD (1903-1994) (1928) The Wedding Gift 14 Getting to Williamstown 101
SINCLAIR ROSS TIMOTHY FINDLEY (19O8) (193O) The Lamp at Noon 26 < The Duel in Cluny Park 110
JOYCE MARSHALL ALICE MUNRO (1913) (1931) The Old Woman 34 The Jack Randa Hotel 131
HUGH GARNER JANE RULE (1913-1979) (1931) One-Two-Three Little Indians 44 The End of Summer 149
MAVIS GALLANT AUSTIN C. CLARKE (1922) (1932) Scarves, Beads, Sandals 53 Griff! 156
NORMAN LEVINE MARIAN ENGEL (1923) (1933-1985) • 'i Something Happened Here 65 Share and Share Alike 171 LEON ROOKE v CLARK BLAISE (1934) (194O) The Woman Who Talked to Horses 178 A Class of New Canadians 277
RUDY WIEBE CYNTHIA FLOOD (1934) (194O) Where Is the Voice Coming From? 185 The Meaning of the Marriage 284
GEORGE BOWERING SANDRA BIRDSELL (1935) (1942) The Hayfield 193 Flowers for Weddings and Funerals 292 W.P. KINSELLA (1935) MATT COHEN Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to (1942) Iowa 199 Trotsky's First Confessions 297
CAROL SHIELDS ISABEL HUGGAN (1935) • , , (1943) Milk Bread Beer Ice 210 Celia Behind Me 307
AUDREY THOMAS THOMAS KING (1935) (1943) Bear Country 218 One Good Story, That One. 313
ALISTAIR MACLEOD BONNIE BURNARD
(1936) -. , (1945) : As Birds Bring Forth the Sun 224 Deer Heart 318
BARRY CALLAGHAN BRONWEN WALLACE (1937) (1945-1989) The Black Queen 230 For Puzzled in Wisconsin 326
JOHN METCALF DOUGLAS GLOVER (1938) . (1948) The Years in Exile 233 Swain Corliss, Hero of Malcolm's Mills (now.Oakland, Ontario), MARGARET ATWOOD November 6, 1814 333 (1939) True Trash 247 MARGARET GIBSON (1948) W.D. VALGARDSON Making It 338 (1939) God is Not a Fish Inspector 267 Contents \ VM
KATHERINE GOVIER JANICE KULYK KEEFER (1948) (1953) Sociology 352 Transfigurations 398
BARBARA GOWDY DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN (1950) (1954) We So Seldom Look on Love 357 Red Plaid Shirt 404
& GUY VANDERHAEGHE LINDA SVENDSEN (1951) (1954) Dancing Bear 367 White Shoulders 413
ROHINTON MISTRY NEIL BISSOONDATH (1952) (1955) The Ghost of Firozsha Baag 379 Digging Up the Mountains 423
DIONNE BRAND CAROLINE ADDERSON (1953) (1963) Sans Souci 390 The Chmarnyk 436
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 442
INDEX 461