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