Research Catalog

Title

The children's hours : stories about childhood / edited by Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulović.

Publication

London : Arcadia, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zimler, Richard
• Sekulović, Raša

Description

viii, 250 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Fiction
• Short stories, English
• Children > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments / Richard Zimler -- The Fragile and Precious Hours of Children / Rasa Sekulovic -- Making Poison / Margaret Atwood -- Invierno / Junot Diaz -- The Miami Dolphins / Patricia Volk -- Writ / Ali Smith -- Breaking the Pig / Etgar Keret -- Clowns in Clover / Nadine Gordimer -- The Submarine / Uri Orlev -- Pink Shoes / Andre Brink -- Shame / Judith Ravenscroft -- Personal Fulcrums / Richard Zimler -- Rudolf's Secret / Karina Magdalena Szczurek -- De-Luxe Model / Adam Thorpe -- Swan Sister / Katherine Vaz -- The New Sidewalk / Dorothy Bryant -- Square / David Liss -- A Great Event / Vikas Swarup -- Boys and Dogs / Elizabeth Hay -- Kiss and Tell / John Sam Jones -- The Castle Morton Jerry / Nicholas Shakespeare -- Bunker's Lane / Melvin Burgess -- Jacks / Jane DeLynn -- Opera In My Head / Meg Rosoff -- The TW, part Q / Markus Zusak -- May Malone / David Almond -- Father and Son / Alberto Manguel -- The Girl Who Ate Death for Breakfast / Eva Hoffman.

ISBN

• 9781905147809 (pbk.)
• 1905147805 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 226976298
• SCSB-11458407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library