I Know Some Things

Description: xv, 245 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: Lies / Glenda Adams -- Betty / Margaret Atwood -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Daley's girls / Catherine Brady -- His son, in his arms, in light, aloft / Harold Brodkey -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- I know some things / D.J. Durnam -- Signs and wonders / Max Garland -- Sex and death to the age 14 / Spalding Gray -- Gwen / Jamaica Kincaid -- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann -- The Ponoes / Peter Meinke -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- Hiding / Susan Minot -- The turkey season / Alice Munro. Beautiful my mane in the wind / Catherine Petroski -- Out-of-the-body travel / Sheila Schwartz -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Dog Heaven / Stephanie Vaughn. Responsibility: edited by Lorrie Moore. Abstract: "When writers of fiction have made the effort to explore the mottled landscape of a child's secrets and understanding, they have often created stories of ferocious poignancy," writes Lorrie Moore in her introduction to this dazzling collection of stories about childhood. I Know Some Things presents the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world.