| Women and Fiction: Stories by and about Women Contributor(s): Various (Author), Cahill, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0451528271 ISBN-13: 9780451528278 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: March 2002 Annotation: This collection of short stories from 26 of the finest women writers of the 20th century celebrate woman in her many roles--daughter, mother, wife, worker, lover, sister, and friend. Contributors include Willa Cather, Colette, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.33" H x 4.23" W x 6.78" (0.50 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Kate Chopin's turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein's war-time Paris, to Alice Walker's modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century. These well-known and well-loved authors people their stories with vibrant female characters, from all over the world and all walks of life. Separately, each of these stories bears the mark of a skilled writer. Together, they celebrate woman in her many roles--as daughter, mother, worker, wife, lover, sister, and friend. In Tillie Olsen's classic, "I Stand Here Ironing," a single mother considers her success in raising a daughter. In Eudora Welty's "The Worn Path," an African-American grandmother meets with grace the impudence of a young, white man. In Alice Munro's "The Office," a wife who has too many distractions to write at home rents a room in town, only to be constantly interrupted by her landlord. Superbly written, and at once poignant and ironic, these insightful stories capture the essence of being a woman--in all its similarity, and all its diversity. |