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A Literary Christmas : great contemporary Christmas stories / edited and with an introduction by Lilly Golden

Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1992]
Copyright Date
©1992
Physical Description
x, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Golden, Lilly

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Contents
Introduction / Lilly Golden -- Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor -- Auggie Wren's Christmas story / Paul Auster -- Champagne / Tobias Wolff -- The birds for Christmas / Mark Richard -- Christmas for Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo / Ntozake Shange -- A Christmas conspiracy tale / Ivan Klíma -- Two of a kind / Sean O'Faolain -- Jesu, joy of man's desiring / Michel Tournier -- The frozen fields / Paul Bowles -- The world in a bowl of soup : a Christmas story / Annie Dillard -- Xmas / Thomas M. Disch -- The centerpiece / Peter Matthiessen -- Santa's children / Italo Calvino -- A clock ticks at Christmas / Patricia Highsmith -- Christmas / Harper Lee -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The doll / Edna O'Brien -- Drawing names / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Where you'll find me / Ann Beattie -- Put yourself in my shoes / Raymond Carver -- The night of the Magi / Leo Rosten -- A Christmas carillon / Hortense Calisher -- Long distance / Jane Smiley -- And there was the evening and the morning ... / Heinrich Böll -- Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs n Goods / Toni Cade Bambara -- Bless me, Father, for I have sinned / Ray Bradbury -- The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson.
Summary
Collection of contemporary Christmas stories by twenty-seven authors including Ray Bradbury, Grace Pauley, and others.
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ISBN
087113490X
9780871134905
0871135833
9780871135834
Collection
George Meredith Christmas Collection.
Note
"First printing"--Verso of title-page.
Rare Books copy: "First printing"; in publisher's cloth boards and original dust jacket.
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