Long description
Modern South African Stories - Revised selection edited by Stephen Gray is the new edition of the perennial seller. It now includes the best ten stories from the original edition and has been updated to include 17 entirely fresh stories by a wide range of new South African writers. Some of the stories have never been published before.
The original selection by the same editor was reprinted seven times by public demand. This selection of some of the finest work by South African writers, old and new, will continue to entertain and inspire lovers of the short story form.
Author's include:
Lionel Abrahams
Ken Barris
Elleke Boehmer
Yvonne Burgess
Shaun de Waal
K Sello Duiker
Ahmed Essop
Nadine Gordimer
Stephen Gray
Rachelle Greef
Bessie Head
Maureen Isaacson
Farida Korodia
Rustum Kozain
Shaun Levin
Rose Moss
Phaswane Mpe
Es'kia Mphahlele
Deena Padayachee
Sheila Roberts
Peter Rule
Sipho Sepamla
Mongane Serote
Pieter Dirk-Uys
Chris van Wyk
Dennis Venter
Peter Wilhelm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Gray was born in Cape Town in 1941. He is a well-known poet now retired from academic life and works in Johannesburg as a freelance journalist. Included in this anthology is one of his own stories, which first appeared in the Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad.
PREVIOUS BOOKS
A World of their Own
On the Edge of the World
Modern South African Stories - original edition
Modern South African Poetry
Theatre One