Tell Me a Riddle
"Tell Me a Riddle" is a short story by Tillie Olsen. It was published in 1956 as the title story of a collection of four Olsen short stories.
| "Tell Me a Riddle" | |
|---|---|
| Author | Tillie Olsen |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Published in | New World Writing No. 16 |
| Publication type | periodical anthology |
| Publisher | J. B. Lippincott & Co. |
| Publication date | 1960 |
| Author | Tillie Olsen |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Dell Publishing |
Publication date | 1956 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 125 |
| OCLC | 748997729 |
Reception
The short story "Tell Me a Riddle" has been called "a powerful study of the politics of voice",[1] "an American Classic",[2] and described as "beautifully crafted and painfully real in the issues of family that it raises".[3] It received the 1961 O. Henry Award.[4]
Adaptations
Tell Me a Riddle, a film based on the short story collection, was released in 1980.[5]
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gollark: (in any case, it's probably less than the resource waste from Electron etc. by rather a lot)
gollark: I do vaguely feel this way about encryption and whatever - if people were trustworthy and nice™, we could save some amount of system resources and key distribution hassle and whatever. As it turns out, though, they aren't, so it isn't very relevant, and even if everyone suddenly did stop being antagonistic, this is a ridiculously unstable state.
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References
- Pfaelzer, Jean (1994). "Tillie Olsen's "Tell Me a Riddle": The Dialectics of Silence". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. University of Nebraska Press. 15 (2): 1–22. doi:10.2307/3346759. JSTOR 3346759.
- Oliver B. Pollak. "TILLIE OLSEN". jwa.org. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
- Janice Willms (June 14, 2004). "Tell Me a Riddle". medhum.med.nyu.edu. NYU Langone Medical Center. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
- "The O. Henry Prize Stories Past Winners List". www.randomhouse.com. Random House LLC. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- "Tell Me a Riddle (1980)". www.rottentomatoes.com. Fandango Media. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
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