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Still wild short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present

The Real Western Canon Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier. Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination -- one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex. Contributors Wallace Stegner * Dave Hickey * Dao Strom * Dagoberto Gilb * William Hauptman * Jack Kerouac * Ron Hansen * Diana Ossana * Robert Boswell * Tom McGuane Louise Erdrich * Max Apple * Mark Jude Poirier * Rick Bass * Jon Billman * Richard Ford * Raymond Carver * Annie Proulx * Leslie Marmon Silko * William H. Gass.

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  • "Presents a collection of twenty short stories by various authors depicting life in the American West after 1950."
  • "The Real Western Canon Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier. Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination -- one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex. Contributors Wallace Stegner * Dave Hickey * Dao Strom * Dagoberto Gilb * William Hauptman * Jack Kerouac * Ron Hansen * Diana Ossana * Robert Boswell * Tom McGuane Louise Erdrich * Max Apple * Mark Jude Poirier * Rick Bass * Jon Billman * Richard Ford * Raymond Carver * Annie Proulx * Leslie Marmon Silko * William H. Gass."@en
  • "A collection of twenty short fiction stories of the American West, written by a variety of contemporary authors including Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, William H. Gass, and others."
  • "A collection of twenty short fiction stories of the American West, written by a variety of contemporary authors including Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, William H. Gass, and others."@en

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  • "Westerny (literatura)"
  • "Nowele amerykańskie"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Western stories"

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  • "Still wild : short fiction of the American West : 1950 to the present"
  • "Still wild : short fiction of the American West 1950 to the present"
  • "Still wild : short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present"
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  • "Still wild: short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present"

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