The Penguin Book of Summer Stories

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A collection of twenty stories (by writers including Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortázar and Isabel Huggan) set in the leisurely time of summer, in which ‘summer’ is so much more than a coveted season; it is also a state of mind, a passage in time, a connection between people, worlds – or a mere illusion.

First Edition

Toronto, Penguin Group, 2007
Softcover, 384 p.

Selection, introduction and notes

by Alberto Manguel
J. Cortázar translated by Alberto Manguel

9780143056294

Introduction
MARGARET ATWOOD: Death by Landscape
RAY BRADBURY: Dandelion Wine
ITALO CALVINO: Under the Jaguar Sun
ALBERT CAMUS: The Adulterous Woman
MOHAMED CHOUKRI: Le Chevalier
JULIO CORTÁZAR: Summer
ANITA DESAI: Games at Twilight
HELEN GARNER: Postcards from Surfers
ISABEL HUGGAN: On Fire
SHIMAKI KENSAKU: The Wasps
BERNARD MACLAVERTY: A Pornographer Woos
DAPHNE DU MAURIER: The Pool
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness
ALICE MUNRO: Hired Girl
LUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAYA: The New Family Robinson
WALLACE STEGNER: The View from the Balcony
GRAHAM SWIFT: Learning to Swim
ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Flesh
JOHN UPDIKE: Lifeguard
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: Three Players of a Summer Game
A. B. YEHOSHUA: Early in the Summer of 1970
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