The Best American Short Stories, 1991 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Alice Adams with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Alice Adams.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991.Description: xxii , 426 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0395544106 :
  • 9780395544105
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS648.S5 B4 1991
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / Alice Adams -- The legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- The trip back / Robert Olen Butler -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon -- Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The body shop / Elizabeth Graver -- Houdini / Siri Hustvedt -- Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Friend of my youth / Alice Munro -- American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dog stories / Francine Prose -- A sandstone farmhouse / John Updike -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1990 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection PS648 .S5 B4 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98635032

Contributors notes: p. [395]-409.

"100 other distinguished stories of 1990": p. [410]-413.

"Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [414]-426.

Foreword -- Introduction / Alice Adams -- The legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- The trip back / Robert Olen Butler -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon -- Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The body shop / Elizabeth Graver -- Houdini / Siri Hustvedt -- Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Friend of my youth / Alice Munro -- American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dog stories / Francine Prose -- A sandstone farmhouse / John Updike -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1990 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

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