| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron." |
| Contents |
Preface / Caitlin Roper -- Introduction / Rivka Galchen -- Recognition / Victor LaValle -- A blue sky like this / Mona Awad -- The walk / Kamila Shamsie -- Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin -- Clinical notes / Liz Moore -- The team / Tommy Orange -- The rock / Leila Slimani -- Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood --Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li -- Outside / Edgar Keret -- Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan -- The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner -- The morningside / Tea Obreht -- Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra -- How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu -- Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell -- If wishes was horses / David Mitchell -- Systems / Charles Yu -- The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano -- An obliging robber / Mia Couto -- Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala -- The cellar / Dina Nayeri -- That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami -- A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks -- Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon -- Origin story / Matthew Baker -- To the wall/ Esi Edugyan -- Barcelona: open city / John Wray -- One thing / Edwidge Danticat. |
| Subject |
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
LaValle, Victor D., 1972-
Recognition.
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Awad, Mona.
Blue sky like this.
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Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
Walk.
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Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Tales from the L.A. River.
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Moore, Liz, 1983-
Clinical notes.
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Orange, Tommy, 1982-
Team.
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Slimani, Leïla, 1981-
Rock.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Impatient Griselda.
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Li, Yiyun, 1972-
Under the magnolia.
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Keret, Etgar, 1967-
Outside.
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| Added Title |
New York times.
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| ISBN |
9781982170790 : $25.00 |
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1982170794 |
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