The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood

by Lorrie Moore (Editor)

Synopsis

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood presents the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Some of today's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Spalding Gray, Jamaica Kincaid, Susan Minot, Alice Munro, Edna O'Brian, Ben Okri and Amy Tan, capture childhood incidents that are comic, startling, touching and disturbing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 05 Jan 1998

ISBN 10: 0571192017
ISBN 13: 9780571192014

Author Bio
Lorrie Moore is the award-winning author of the story collections Self-Help, Like Life, and Birds of America, and the novels Anagrams and Who will Run the Frog Hospital? She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.