Adds twenty-nine new authors to the 1966 collection of short stories that includes ""A Voice From the Wall"" by Amy Tan, ""Strong Horse Tea"" by Alice Walker, ""Uglypuss"" by Margaret Atwood, and ""The Bridle"" by Raymond Carver. Reprint.
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Really helps an aspiring writer understand the power of pov.,
By mmcnally@usa.net (All over Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Points of View: Revised Edition (Paperback)
This book uses a wonderfully varied selection of stories to teach the reader about different Point of View's (pov) and how they effect the tone and content of a story. As a wanna-be writer I have found this one of my most effective books I make frequent reference to.
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An educational anthology on point- of- view in storytelling,
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My review is of the 1966 New American Library edition of the work. I found this book to be an excellent educator in the art of the short - story. The editors give two examples of stories in the following categories: Interior Monlongue, Dramatic Monologue, Letter Narration, Diary Narration, Subjective Narration, Detached Autobiography, Memoir or Observed Narration, Biography or Anonymous Narration, Anonymous Narration Dual Character Point-of- View ,Anonymous Narration Multiple Character Point- of - View Anonymous Narration No Character Point of view. Among the many memorable stories here are classics of the genre by Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, de Maupassant, Conrad, Henry James, Dostoevsky. There is a great story by Irwin Shaw "Act of Faith"and Updike's well- known "A & P".
There is much to learn and much to enjoy here. However I missed there not being a story from my own personal favorite story-writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Give it to a teenager,
By Kevin Brianton (Melbourne, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Points of View: Revised Edition (Paperback)
This book was given to us by a Canadian exhange teacher and it has opened up so many avenues of reading. From Shirley Jackson's horror masterpiece The Lottery through to Truman Capote's My Side of the Matter, it is a brilliant, brillant anthology. A lifetime's reading awaits anyone who picks up this book as each story makes you seek out the author.
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Sessue Matoi, Miss Pendexter, Old Annie, Rannie Toomer, Little Ray, New York, Aunt Mackie, Connie Nova, Little Brother, Aunt Harriet, Bill Hutchinson, Miss Whittier, Sarah Ann, Joe Willow, Miz Della, Uncle Henry, Brigadier General Jupiter Doke, Linda Cobb, Night Watchman Hillyard, Old Man Warner, Treece Herron, Uncle Andy, William Platt, Annie Herron, Jimmy Bear New!
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prescription booth, observer narration, wilderness station, new window display, old home remedies, bad confession, occurrence book Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sessue Matoi, Miss Pendexter, Old Annie, Rannie Toomer, Little Ray, New York, Aunt Mackie, Connie Nova, Little Brother, Aunt Harriet, Bill Hutchinson, Miss Whittier, Sarah Ann, Joe Willow, Miz Della, Uncle Henry, Brigadier General Jupiter Doke, Linda Cobb, Night Watchman Hillyard, Old Man Warner, Treece Herron, Uncle Andy, William Platt, Annie Herron, Jimmy Bear New!
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- The Great Gatsby (Textplus) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald on page 304, and Back Matter
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- First Time Up: An Insider's Guide for New Composition Teachers by Brock Dethier on page 27, and Back Matter
- Thematic Guide to Popular Short Stories: by Patrick A. Smith on page 54, and Back Matter
- Writing Alone and with Others by Pat Schneider in Back Matter
- Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Hazel A. Ervin in Back Matter
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