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Title

Sudden flash youth : 65 short-short stories / edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman.

Publication

New York : Persea Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Perkins-Hazuka, Christine.
• Hazuka, Tom.
• Budman, Mark

Description

xi, 211 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.

Subject

Short stories, American

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Young adult works
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Young adult fiction.
• Nouvelles.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Tamazunchale / Robert Shapard -- Chalk / Meg Kearney -- Twins / Pamela Painter -- First virtual / Kathleen O'Donnell -- Heartland / Daphne Beal -- Confession / Stuart Dybek -- Sleeping / Katharine Weber -- 1951 / Richard Bausch -- Little Brother / Bruce Holland Rogers -- Currents / Hannah Bottomy Voskuil -- After / Bill Konigsberg -- Accident / Dave Eggers -- Homeschool insider: The fighting pterodactyls / Ron Carlson -- Forgotten / Anne Mazer -- After he left / Matt Hlinak -- The Flowers / Alice Walker -- Homeward Bound / Tom Hazuka -- A Car / Pia Z. Ehrhardt -- Stop / Steve Almond -- The haircut / Manuela Soares -- What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen -- Coyote bait / Brian Bedard -- Rapture / Gayle Brandeis -- Alone / Bryan Shawn Wang -- Head case / Nance Van Winckel -- Friday night / Elizabeth Ehrlich -- Beyond Yesler / Peter Bacho -- Half sleep / Matt Krampitz -- No wake zone / L. C. Fiore -- The teacher's son / Aaron Hamburger -- Diverging paths and all that / Maryanne O'Hara -- A whole other / Caron A. Levis -- The burden of Agatha / Natalie Haney Tilghman -- No boundaries / David Lloyd -- History / Beth Alvarado -- The coat / Lex Williford -- Raised by wolves / Craig Morgan Teicher -- Trapped / Shelby Raebeck -- Thud / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The pillory / Paul Lisicky -- Theology / Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur -- Pep assembly at Evergreen Junior High / David Partenheimer -- My brother at the Canadian border / Sholeh Wolpe -- The engines of Sodom / Jonathan Papernick -- The Barbie birthday / Alison Townsend -- The last good night / Todd James Plerce -- Corporal / Richard Brautigan -- The Quinceanera text / Erin Fanning -- The stoop / Donald Capone -- The last stop / Jenny Halper -- Forsythia / Jacqueline Kolosov -- Fifteen fathers / Alan Stewart Carl -- The bracelet / Ann Angel -- You cannot make me / Miles Garett Watson -- Jew school / Sonia Pilcer -- Disorder / Samantha Davis -- The perpetual now / Daniel Levin Becker -- Bullhead / Leigh Allison Wilson -- The call / Jon Andersen -- Between practice and perfection / Azizat Danmole -- How to raise a happy dog / Erika Recordon -- For good / Sarah Layden -- Saturday's child / Kelly Cherry -- Hey, Jess McCafferty / Christine Byl -- The two rats and the BB gun / Raphael Dagold.

ISBN

• 9780892553716 (alk. paper)
• 0892553715 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011021284

OCLC

• 668193946
• SCSB-11780815

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library