This unique collection brings together 23 rich and stirring stories about the profound relationship between fathers and their daughters. Arranged to reflect the many pleasures and uncertainties fathers confront as they move with their daughters from infancy to adulthood, these superb stories take the reader from the father of a three-week-old da...   more 籾ghter in Raymond Carver's "Distance" to the elderly father of a middle-aged daughter in Muriel Spark's "The Fathers' Daughters." The result is a vivid array of short fiction not only from acknowledged masters but from some of our finest contemporary writers. Spanning the twentieth century, these stories reveal the complex feelings men have toward their daughters - from fierce love and admiration to jealousy, bafflement, and disapproval. Taken together, these stories offer a breathtaking literary portrait of the internal drama of fatherhood. "Distance" by Raymond Carver "The Baby Party" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "A Short Digest of a Long Novel" by Budd Schulberg "Should Wizard Hit Mommy?" by John Updike "Blindness" by Larry Woiwode "Wednesday's Child" by Joyce Carol Oates "Je Suis Perdu" by Peter Taylor "On the Waves" by Harold Brodkey "At the Outset of the Day" by S.Y. Agnon "Forty-Five a Month" by R.K. Narayan "I Want a Sunday Kind of Love" by Herbert Gold "Bridging" by Max Apple "Crossings" by Stephen Minot "Man and Daughter in the Cold" by John Updike "growing Up" by Joyce Cary "A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus "Snow" by Alice Adams "Appearance" by John O'Hara "The Tide and Isaac Bates" by Stephen Minot "Autumn Sunshine" by William Trevor "The Prodigal Parent" by Mavis Gallant "The Road from Colonus" by E.M. Forster "The Fathers' Daughters" by Muriel Spark About the Authors   ?less