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Bright Angels & Familiars
Contemporary Mormon Stories

Edited by Eugene England
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1992 (348p.)
 

Genre:  Short Story Anthology
Summary:
Bright Angels and Familiars anthologizes the full sweep of contemporary Mormon short fiction. Beginning with Virginia Sorensen and Maurine Whipple, the best of Mormondom's "lost generation" of the 1940s and 1950s, it progresses to Douglas Thayer and Donald Marshall, the first in a new generation of the 1970s and 1980s to produce complete collections of short stories, and Lewis Horne adn Levi Peterson, the first to be nationally published and honored. It concludes with such recent and increasingly prominent writers as Phyllis Barber, John Bennion, Orson Scott Card, Neal Chandler, Judith Freeman, Walter Kirn, and Margaret Young.

These writers employ a wide spectrum of styles and themes, from realism to post-modernism, from folklore to satire, from faith to despair. Editor Eugene England has selected what he feels are the best short stories of today's finest Mormon writers, making Bright Angels & Familiars a definitive compilation. [from back cover]

HBLL Call No: BX 8688.3 .B768 1992
This publication includes:
The New Mormon Fiction by Eugene England
Pages: xi-xx
Criticism
Where Nothing is Long Ago by Virginia Sorensen
Pages: 1-10
Personal Essay
They Did Go Forth by Maurine Whipple
Pages: 11-19
Short Story
Opening Day by Douglas H. Thayer
Pages: 21-37
Short Story
The Week-End by Donald R. Marshall
Pages: 39-54
Short Story
The People Who Were Not There by Lewis Horne
Pages: 55-72
Short Story
Sayso or Sense by Eileen Gibbons Kump
Pages: 73-80
Short Story
Hit the Frolicking, Rippling Brooks by Karen Rosenbaum
Pages: 81-89
Short Story
Born of the Water by Wayne Jorgensen
Pages: 91-107
Short Story
The Christianizing of Coburn Heights by Levi S. Peterson
Pages: 109-132
Short Story
I Am Buzz Gaulter, Left-hander by Darrell Spencer
Pages: 133-144
Short Story
Windows on the Sea by Linda Sillitoe
Pages: 145-158
Short Story
Woman Talking to a Cow by Pauline Mortensen
Pages: 159-161
Short Story
Benediction by Neal C. Chandler
Pages: 163-184
Short Story
Lost and Found by Michael Fillerup
Pages: 185-210
Short Story
Family Attractions by Judith Freeman
Pages: 211-225
Short Story
At the Talent Show by Phyllis Barber
Pages: 227-244
Short Story
The Fringe by Orson Scott Card
Pages: 245-270
Short Story
Dry Niger by M. Shayne Bell
Pages: 271-280
Short Story
Dust by John Bennion
Pages: 281-293
Short Story
Outsiders by Margaret Blair Young
Pages: 295-304
Short Story
Iris Holmes by Sibyl Johnston
Pages: 305-326
Short Story
Whole Other Bodies by Walter Kirn
Pages: 327-331
Short Story



Reviewed In:
[Review of] Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories by Robert Hogge
[Review of] Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories by John Espley
[Review of] Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories by Tim Behrend
A PG-Rated Sampler by Tim Behrend
[Review of] Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories, edited by Eugene England by Patricia Mann Alto






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