Under 25

Duke Narrative and Verse, 1945–1962: A Collection of Short Stories and Verse by Sixteen Duke Authors

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Pages: 251

Published: September 1975

Contributors: William Styron, Mac Hyman, Guy Davenport, Elinor Divine, Constance Mueller, Robert Nordan, James Applewhite, Alan Bradford, Barbara Barksdale, Thomas R. Atkins, Wallace Kaufman, Anne Tyler, James Carpenter, George Young, Fred Chappell, and Reynolds Price

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Literature and Literary Studies > Fiction

Under 25 contains early writings of such distinguished Duke University graduates as William Styron, Mac Hyman, Reynolds Price, Anne Tyler, James Applewhite, and Fred Chappell. All of the pieces were written either when their authors were undergraduates or very recent graduates, which makes for a collection of stories and poems which is youthful and energetic, but never naive.

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Writers Under Twenty-five / William Styron 3

The Dove Shoot / Mac Hyman 9

Two Poems / Guy Davenport 19

The Onlooker / Elinor Divine 22

The Ivory Star / Constance Mueller 40

Mayday in Boy and Girl / Robert Nordan 47

Water in a Dry Place / James Applewhite 58

Three Poems / James Applewhite 73

Silence and Slow Time / Alan Bradford 76

Cover Every Track / Barbara Barksdale 92

Island Summer / Thomas R. Atkins 104

Waiting / Wallace Kaufman 119

Ten Poems / Wallace Kaufman 137

The Saints in Caesar's Household / Anne Tyler 146

I Never Saw Morning / Anne Tyler 157

Mr. Do and the Nursery School / James Carpenter 167

End of a Journey / George Young 170

Inheritance / Fred Chappell 180

January / Fred Chappell 191

Ten Poems / Fred Chappell 194

A Chain of Love / Reynolds Price 205

Contributors 237

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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-0349-7 /

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