Jones, Thom

Cold snap : stories by Thom Jones( Book )
20 editions published between 1995 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 641 libraries worldwide
A collection of stories, many on the experiences of white people with the heat and savagery of Africa. The title story is on a burned-out American doctor. By the author of The Puglist at Rest

The best American short stories, 1993 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 547 libraries worldwide
Contains twenty of the best short stories of 1993

The best American short stories, 1994 by Tobias Wolff( Book )
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 542 libraries worldwide
Twenty-one best short stories of 1994

The best American short stories, 1995 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Jane Smiley( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 523 libraries worldwide
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected, and most popular, of its kind

The Best American short stories, 1992 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 462 libraries worldwide
A compilation of twenty American short stories by authors such as Rick Bass, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Mono, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1991

The pleasure of influence : conversations with American male fiction writers by Rob Trucks( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 170 libraries worldwide
"In this collection of interviews, eleven of the most important American male fiction writers of our time - Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, National Book Award nominees Thom Jones, Barry Hannah, and Stephen Dixon, as well as Russell Banks, Rick Moody, Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan, Steve Erickson, and Gordon Lish - candidly discuss the origin, process, and achievement of their own fiction. All of the writers in this collection are working with personal truths, particular to their experience, yet they operate within a defined referential tradition. The material is unmistakably their own, the way they tell the story is their own, but they are always mindful of the world that preceded them."--Jacket

Anna Gaskell : story by Thom Jones( Book )
2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 143 libraries worldwide
"Caesura" strip mines the strangeness of growing up and the attendant sexual transformations that parallel it. Collected for the first time, the photos feature images punctuated with diverse cultural references, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and Brian DePalma's "Carrie"

Chicago by Nelson Algren( Book )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide

Short stories for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ( Book )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide
Profiles fourteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Annie Proulx, Katherine Anne Porter, and Raymond Carver, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations

Le pugiliste au repos : nouvelles by Thom Jones( Book )
13 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 39 libraries worldwide
L'auteur livre dans ces nouvelles sa vision de la condition humaine, brutale et sombre : le poignant et dernier combat d'un boxer alcoolique, les visions hallucinatoires d'un Américain égaré à Bombay, etc