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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
Paper, 952 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11099-0
$30.00
/ £20.50
vol. 1 and 2
March, 2001
Cloth, 952 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11098-3
$99.50
/ £68.50
"Particularly useful because it includes contemporary authors who are difficult to find . . . The writing is uniformly excellent, and the efficient index includes authors, story titles, book titles, and subjects." — J. E. Sheets, Choice
"The Columbia Companion offers deeper coverage of American short stories . . . [this] would be an asset to library collections at the high-school and college levels." — Booklist
"An eminently useful work. While there are other books on short stories and on the authors included here, this new resource is unusually well done. . . . The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story is essential for academic libraries and is highly recommended for public and school libraries." — Neal Wyatt, Library Journal
"Each entry presents a critique of at least two of an author's stories, a biliography of the story collections, and recommendations for more sustained critiques of the author's work." — American Literature
"Here are the categories of a postcanonical era with a vengeance: not just stories with a thematic cycle but also those written by African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano-Latinos, lesbians and gays, Native Americans, non-English speakers, members of the working class, people concerned with the Holocaust, and even those with ecological interests." — American Literary Scholarship
"This reference will be well-used by high school students seeking resources for the ubiquitous literary 'term paper.' And in so doing, they may begin to develop a 'sense of what makes a writer unique.'" — Virginia Wallace, ALA Bibliography