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Article: Martin, Wendy, ed. More stories we tell; the best contemporary short stories by North American women.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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MARTIN, Wendy, ed. More stories we tell; the best contemporary short stories by North American women. Random House, Pantheon. 362p. c2004. 0-375-71450-2. $15.00. SA
A follow-up to We are the Stories We Tell (1990), this volume seeks to gather "representative narratives that are a pleasure to read and that portray women's experiences in the final decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first." While a few of the 24 stories date from the 1970s and '80s, most are stories from the '90s by such well-known writers as Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, Gish Jen, Bobble Ann Mason, and Louise ...