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Loading... The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors8 | None | 2,175,062 | None | None | Contemporary short stories about college life, by famed writers and rising stars; Fiction, like life, has its lessons, and it's a wild ride on the learning curve when storytelling goes to school. The short stories in this collection negotiate the heights, the depths, and the unexpected angles of campus intrigue, sexual and intellectual awakenings and reckonings, and all the heartache and hilarity of a sentimental education. The work of such well-known authors as Stephen King, Marly Swick, and Ron Carlson appears here as well as stories by promising new voices. The results are sometimes harrowing (in King's story, a serial killer roams a campus), sometimes droll (in Lucia Perillo's The Wife of an Indian, an academic adjusts his ethnicity to get tenure), and often poignant (as in Dan Chaon's story of the aftermath of an accident that injures a fraternity president.)… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | McNally, John | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Beller, Thomas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Brown, Amy Knox | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Carlson, Ron | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chaon, Dan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Grillo, Art | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kendall, Gillian | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | King, Stephen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lee, Rebecca | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nissen, Thisbe | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Olsen, Sondra Spatt | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Perillo, Lucia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Russo, Richard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Schraufnagel, Joe | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shishin, Alex | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Swick, Marly | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Weaver, Gordon | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Whalen, Tom | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Contemporary short stories about college life, by famed writers and rising stars; Fiction, like life, has its lessons, and it's a wild ride on the learning curve when storytelling goes to school. The short stories in this collection negotiate the heights, the depths, and the unexpected angles of campus intrigue, sexual and intellectual awakenings and reckonings, and all the heartache and hilarity of a sentimental education. The work of such well-known authors as Stephen King, Marly Swick, and Ron Carlson appears here as well as stories by promising new voices. The results are sometimes harrowing (in King's story, a serial killer roams a campus), sometimes droll (in Lucia Perillo's The Wife of an Indian, an academic adjusts his ethnicity to get tenure), and often poignant (as in Dan Chaon's story of the aftermath of an accident that injures a fraternity president.) ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - The Whore's Child / Richard Russo
- Strip Battleship / Amy Knox Brown
- The Banks of the Vistula / Rebecca Lee
- Strawberry Spring / Stephen King
- Like Whiskey for Christmas / Joe Schraufnagel
- A Different Kind of Imperfection / Thomas Beller
- What My Boss is Thinking / Art Grillo
- Fraternity / Dan Chaon
- Professors / Tom Whalen
- Hartwell / Ron Carlson
- The Wife of the Indian / Lucia Perillo
- In Loco Parentis / Gillian Kendall
- Free Writing / Sondra Spatt Olsen
- The Rhythm of Disintegration / Marly Swick
- Mr. Eggplant Goes Home / Alex Shishin
- Q, Questing / Gordon Weaver
- Fundamentals of Communication / Thisbe Nissen
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