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The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic

Call Number

  • FICTION DECA (CEN)

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Physical Description

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Added Uniform Title

New York times.

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 / Introduction / Recognition / A blue sky like this / The walk / Tales from the LA. River / Clinical notes / The team / The rock / Impatient Griselda / Outside / Keepsakes / The girl with the big red suitcase / The morningside / Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra
  • How we used to play / Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / If wishes was horses / Systems / The perfect travel buddy / An obliging robber / Sleep / The cellar / That time at my brother's wedding / A time of death, the death of time / Prudent girls / Origin story / To the wall/ Esi Edugyan
  • Barcelona: open city / One thing

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