The children's hours
Subtitle: stories about childhood
By: edited by Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulović
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781905147809
Subjects: Children; Fiction; English Short stories
Description: "In The Children's Hours, these and fifteen other renowned authors explore and celebrate childhood; their tales touching on abuse and rejection, loneliness and love, the joys of friendship and discovery, and the first confused inklings of adolescent love."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and Acknowledgments  -- Richard Zimler; title: The Fragile and Precious Hours of Children  -- Rasa Sekulovic; title: Making Poison  -- Margaret Atwood; title: Invierno  -- Junot Diaz; title: The Miami Dolphins  -- Patricia Volk; title: Writ  -- Ali Smith; title: Breaking the Pig  -- Etgar Keret; title: Clowns in Clover  -- Nadine Gordimer; title: The Submarine  -- Uri Orlev; title: Pink Shoes  -- Andre Brink; title: Shame  -- Judith Ravenscroft; title: Personal Fulcrums  -- Richard Zimler; title: Rudolf's Secret  -- Karina Magdalena Szczurek; title: De-Luxe Model  -- Adam Thorpe; title: Swan Sister  -- Katherine Vaz; title: The New Sidewalk  -- Dorothy Bryant; title: Square  -- David Liss; title: A Great Event  -- Vikas Swarup; title: Boys and Dogs  -- Elizabeth Hay; title: Kiss and Tell  -- John Sam Jones; title: The Castle Morton Jerry  -- Nicholas Shakespeare; title: Bunker's Lane  -- Melvin Burgess; title: Jacks  -- Jane DeLynn; title: Opera In My Head  -- Meg Rosoff; title: The TW, part Q  -- Markus Zusak; title: May Malone  -- David Almond; title: Father and Son  -- Alberto Manguel; title: The Girl Who Ate Death for Breakfast -- Eva Hoffman.