Penguin Book of Summer Stories

A tight and unmarked copy-" Selected and Introduced by Alberto Manguel Summer is the season for reading. Whether lying on the beach or curled up in a chair on the veranda, on a plane to faraway places, or taking in the view from a hotel balcony, reading is the most decadent of summer activities. In The Penguin Book of Summer Stories, internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers a wonderful collection of twenty brilliant stories set in the leisurely time of summer to enjoy and, at the same time, to follow other people's mysterious lives or take part in someone else's dramatic adventure. Margaret Atwood * Ray Bradbury * Italo Calvino * Albert Camus * Mohamed Choukri * Julio Cortazar * Anita Desai * Helen Garner * Isabel Huggan * Shimaki Kensaku * Bernard MacLaverty * Daphne du Maurier * Gabriel Garcia Márquez * Ludmila Petrushevskaya * Wallace Stegner * Graham Swift * Elizabeth Taylor * John Updike * Tennessee Williams * A.B. Yehoshua About the Author: " Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, ALBERTO Manguel is an acclaimed, award-winning Canadian writer. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books, including the innovative The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi) and A History of Reading, The Library at Night, and novels such as News from a Foreign Country Came. As a teenager in Buenos Aires, he served as a reader for the blind Jorge Luis Borges. He currently lives in the South of France."