Double Vision shows once more Rudy Wiebe’s ability to select not only good literature but those stories that best illustrate the nature of the writing craft. In this collection the student is introduced to the ideas and methods of story-making by the inclusion of short, informal commentaries on the art from each of the twelve authors represented.

Contents:

• Introduction by Rudy Wiebe
  James Joyce
• Araby
• Grace
  Katherine Mansfield
• Bliss
• The Doll’s House
  William Faulkner
• A Rose for Emily
• Red Leaves
  Ernest Hemingway
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  Vladimir Nabokov
• ”That in Aleppo Once…”
• Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster
  Bernard Malamud
• Angel Levine
• My Son the Murderer
  Flannery O’Connor
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• Parker’s Back
  Margaret Laurence
• A Gourdful of Glory
• The Loons
  Alice Munro
• Images
• Material
  V. S. Naipaul
• My Aunt Teeth
• The Baker’s Story
  Joyce Carol Oates
• How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
• Nightmusic
  Clark Blaise
• A North American Education
• Among the Dead