Outside rules
Subtitle: short stories about nonconformist youth
By: edited, with an introduction by Claire Robson.
Contributors: Robson, Claire, 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780892553167
Subjects: Short stories, American; Short stories, English; Conformity -- Fiction; Social isolation -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An anthology of fourteen short stories about youth who do not quite fit in because they are too brainy, unathletic, poor, the "wrong" religion, emotionally fragile, from non-traditional families, not model-thin, or simply bent on following a unique path.
Notes: "A Karen and Michael Braziller Book."
Table of contents: title: A minstrel visits / Sandell Morse; title: Mr.Softee / Wally Lamb; title: My Tocaya / Sandra Cisneros; title: Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma; title: One extra parking space / Jacqueline Sheehan; title: Laughing in the dark / Rand Richards Cooper; title: Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford; title: Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle; title: The frontiers of knowledge / Claire Robson; title: Gypsy girl rules / Caitlin Lonning; title: April / Katharine Noel; title: The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight; title: Playing the garden / Chris Fisher; title: The white room / Rebecca Rule.