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\nShortforStodreies  \nNational Advisory Board  \nJennifer Hood:Young Adult/Reference Librarian,Cumberland Public Library,Cumberland,Rhode Island.Certified teacher,Rhode Island.Member of the New England Library Asso-ciation,Rhode Island Library Association,and the Rhode Island Educational MediaAssociation.  \nChristopher Maloney:Head Reference Librarian,Ocean City Free Public Library,Ocean City,New Jersey.Member of the American LibraryAssociation and the New Jersey Library Asso-ciation.Board member of the South JerseyLibrary Cooperative.  \nKathleen Preston:Head of Reference,New CityLibrary,New City,New York.Member of theAmerican Library Association.Received B.A.and M.L.S.from University of Albany.  \nPatricia Sarles:Library Media Specialist,CanarsieHigh School,Brooklyn,New York.ExpertGuide in Biography/Memoir for the websiteAbout.com (http://biography.about.com).Author of short stories and book reviews.Received B.A.,M.A.(anthropology),and  \nM.L.S.from Rutgers University.  \nHeidi Stohs:Instructor in Language Arts,grades10-12,Solomon High School,Solomon,Kan-sas.Received B.S.from Kansas State Univer-sity;M.A.from Fort Hays State University.  \nBarbara Wencl:Library Media Specialist,ComoPark Senior High School,St.Paul,Minne-sota.Teacher of secondary social studies andhistory,St.Paul,Minnesota.Received B.S.and M.Ed.from University of Minnesota;received media certification from Universityof Wisconsin.Educator and media specialistwith over 30 years experience.  \n# Table of Contents\n\nGuest Foreword  \n“Why Study Literature At All?”  \nThomas E.Barden. . …………………………………………vii  \nIntroduction. . .. . . . . .. ix  \nLiterary Chronology……………………………xiii  \nAcknowledgments…………………………………………XV  \nContributors. . . .. ……………………xvii  \nAnimal Stories  \n. . . . .. 1  \nJason Brown . .  \nBlack Boy  \nKay Boyle………………………………………………………………17  \nA Boy and Bis Dog  \nHarlan Ellison. . . . . .. .. .32  \nThe Challenge  \nMario Vargas Llosa. .. ……………………………47  \nThe Country Husband  \nJohn Cheever. . . . . . . . . .62  \nThe Destructors  \nGraham Greene. …………………………………………83  \nDon't Look Now  \nDaphne du Maurier . ………………………………………110  \nThe Eskimo Connection  \nHisaye Yamamoto………………………………………………129  \nExchanging GlancesThe Red ConvertibleChrista Wolf .    .......  144Louise Erdrich....  .....205GooseberriesResurrection of a LifeAnton Chekhov........  158William Saroyan ........220The Last Lovely CitySmall ChangeAlice Adams .........  173Yehudit Hendel.........234Town and Country LoversTatyana Tolstaya ..·..   ..188Nadine Gordimer...  .....250Glossary of Literary Terms....267Cumulative Author/Title Index..279Nationality/Ethnicity Index ..285Subject/Theme Index ......289  \nNight  \nShort Stories for Students is designed to pro-vide readers with information and discussion abouta wide range of important contemporary and histori-cal works of short fiction,and it does that job verywell.However,I want to use this guest foreword toaddress a question that it does not take up.It is 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