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Book synopsis

The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six-word story "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn" to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them "hint fiction" because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Hint Fiction
• Subtitle: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
• Author: Robert Swartwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9780393338461
• ISBN: 0393338460
• ID: 04604703
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 120 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 114 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 2011

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