The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic / The New York Times Magazine ; illustrations by Sophy Hollington.

Format:

• Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• COVID-19 (Disease)--Fiction.
• Short stories, American.
• COVID-19 (Disease).

Genre:

• Short stories, American.
• Short stories.
• Fiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Summary:

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."

Contents:

• Preface / Caitlin Roper
• Introduction / Rivka Galchen
• Recognition / Victor LaValle
• A blue sky like this / Mona Awad
• The walk / Kamila Shamsie
• Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin
• Clinical notes / Liz Moore
• The team / Tommy Orange
• The rock / Leila Slimani
• Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood
• Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li
• Outside / Etgar Keret
• Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan
• The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner
• The morningside / Tea Obreht
• Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra
• How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu
• Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell
• If wishes was horses / David Mitchell
• Systems / Charles Yu
• The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano
• An obliging robber / Mia Couto
• Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala
• The cellar / Dina Nayeri
• That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami
• A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks
• Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon
• Origin story / Matthew Baker
• To the wall/ Esi Edugyan
• Barcelona: open city / John Wray
• One thing / Edwidge Danticat.

Contains:

• LaValle, Victor, 1972- Recognition.
• Awad, Mona. Blue sky like this.
• Shamsie, Kamila, 1973- Walk.
• Tóibín, Colm, 1955- Tales from the L.A. River.
• Moore, Liz, 1983- Clinical notes.
• Orange, Tommy, 1982- Team.
• Slimani, Leïla, 1981- Rock.
• Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Impatient Griselda.
• Li, Yiyun, 1972- Under the magnolia.
• Keret, Etgar, 1967- Outside.

ISBN:

• 9781982170790
• 1982170794
• 9781398502147
• 1398502146

OCLC:

1184238640

Publisher Number:

99986908850