Stories from quarantine /
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Edition: | First Scribner paperback edition. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. ©2020 |
Description: | xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12516966 |
Varying Form of Title: | Decameron project |
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Other authors / contributors: | Hollington, Sophy, illustrator. New York Times Company, editor. |
ISBN: | 9781982170813 1982170816 9781982170790 1982170794 9781398502185 1398502189 9781982170806 |
Notes: | "Previously published as The decameron project" -- title page. |
Summary: | "A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, National Book Award winner Charles Yu, and more. When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fiction from some of today's finest writers help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction? These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Yu, Rachel Kusher, Colm Toibin, and David Mitchell vary widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in our lifetimes, and will offer perspective and solace to the reader now and in a future where COVID-19 is, hopefully, just a memory"-- |
Other form: | Online version: Galchen, Rivka. Decameron project First Scribner paperback edition. New York : Scribner, 2021 9781982170806 |
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