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Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Snapshots. Boston : David R. Godine, 2000 (OCoLC)606504264 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates; Janet Berliner |
ISBN: | 1567921728 9781567921724 1567921140 9781567921144 |
OCLC Number: | 44516787 |
Target Audience: | 1020 |
Description: | xiv, 241 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Wicked girl / Isabel Allende -- Consuelo's letter / Julia Alvarez -- Significant moments in the life of my mother / Margaret Atwood -- The allies / Katherine Dunn -- Cleaning up / Mary Gordon -- La Lloradora / Lois Gould -- An ordinary woman / Bette Greene -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Solitude / Ursula K. Le Guin -- How to talk to your mother (notes) / Lorrie Moore -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- A rose in the heart of New York / Edna O'Brien -- Mousetrap / Jane Shapiro -- Up above Diamond City / Martha Soukup -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Death Mother / Joyce Carol Oates -- Everything old is new again / Janet Berliner. |
Responsibility: | edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Berliner. |
Abstract:
A collection of seventeen stories written by some of the century's best women writers deals with "a single, central, and vital theme, the relationship of mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers."--Front jacket.
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