Robert Shapard

Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories Robert Shapard

Jacket Description/Flap: Contents A Sudden Story Introduction The Stories Afterwords Toward a New Form A Practicum Skippers, Snappers, and BlastersTable of Contents: A Sudden Story Introduction The Stories Afterwords Toward a New Form A Practicum Skippers, Snappers, and BlastersPublisher Marketing: We who love prose fiction love these miniature tales both to read and to write because they are so finite; so highly compressed and highly charged. Joyce Carol Oates People who like to skip can't skip in a three-page story. Grace Paley The short-short story is an exercise in virtuosity that tightens the circle of mystery surrounding what we know. John L'Heureux It can do in a page what a novel does in two hundred. It covers years in less time, time in almost no time. It wants to deliver us to where we were before we began. Its aim is restorative, to keep us young. Mark Strand There are, in truth, more kinds of short-short stories than I ever knew of or imagined. Wonderful I rejoice in the richness and variety of all these voices. George Garrett This collection represents the richness and variety of American writers. The 70 pieces themselves--highly compressed, often tantalizing--display a multiplicity of modes and derive them a variety of traditions. Publishers Weekly Review Citations:

Library Journal 11/01/1986 (EAN 9780879052485, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 08/29/1986 (EAN 9780879052485, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Shapard, Robert Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas. Contributor Bio:  Thomas, James Thomas is Professor of Theatre at Wayne State University and Head of its Ph. D. Program in Directing and Theatre Scholarship. James is a graduate of St. Ambrose College (BA), Villanova University (M. A.), and the University of Texas at Austin (PhD). Thomas has also taught theatre at Mount Holyoke College, Marquette University and Florida State University, where he was Associate Dean. He is also translator of texts about modern Russian acting and directing technique and Director of of the Department's Study Abroad Program with the Moscow Art Theatre School.