I Know Some Things: Stories about Childhood by Contemporary Writers

By Lorrie Moore

Book Overview

A collection of 20 dazzling stories written from a child's-eye view. Some of today's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Harold Brodkey, Spalding Gray, Jamaica Kincaid, Susan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571129455
• ISBN13: 9780571129454
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended, rewarding reading.

I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood By Contemporary Writers is a compilation of engaging, individual literary tales about childhood that cut across gender, age, class, ethnicity, and geography. Here to be found memorable stories of heartache and joy, growing up, and viewing the world in new and different ways. The authors include Glenda Adams, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Baxter, Catherine Brady, Harold Brodkey, Charles D'Ambrosio Jr., D.J. Durnam, Max Garland, Spalding Grey, Jamaica Kincaid, Richard McCann, Peter Meinke, Leonard Michaels, Susan Minot, Alice Munro, Catherine Petroski, Sheila Schwartz, Amy Tan, and Stephanie Vaughan. I Know Some Things is highly recommended, rewarding reading.

Great Models for Beginning Writers

Even a glance through the table of contents in Lorrie Moore's newly reprinted "I Know Some Things" demontrates its utility for the teacher of creative writing. We tell our students to write about what they know, and what they know at least is their own life history. The stories in this collection, representing a range of today's talented writers, also represents the range of experience the writers had between their early childhood and their middle teenage years. The volume thereby would come in handy as a set of models for young writers in a secondary or college creative writing class.