The Penguin book of summer stories
By: selected and introduced by Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780143056294
Subjects: Summer; Fiction; Summer in literature
Other titles: Summer stories
Description: A collection of twenty-one short stories set during the leisurely time of summer.
Table of contents: title: Death by landscape  -- Margaret Atwood; title: Dandelion wine  -- Ray Bradbury; title: Under the jaguar sun  -- Italio Calvino; title: Adulterous woman  -- Albert Camus; title: Chevalier  -- Mohamed Choukri; title: Summer  -- Julio Cortazar; title: Games at twilight  -- Anita Desai; title: Postcards from surfers  -- Helen Garner; title: On fire  -- Isabel Huggan; title: Wasps  -- Shimaki Kensaku; title: Pornographer woos  -- Bernard MacLaverty; title: Pool  -- Daphne Du Maurier; title: Miss Forbes's summer of happiness  -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez; title: Hired girl  -- Alice Munro; title: New family Robinson  -- Ludmila Petrushevskaya; title: View from the balcony  -- Wallace Stegner; title: Learning to swim  -- Graham Swift; title: Flesh  -- Elizabeth Taylor; title: Lifeguard  -- John Updike; title: Three players of a summer game  -- Tennessee Williams; title: Early in the summer of 1970 -- A.B. Yehoshua.