The Best American Short Stories, 1997 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / [edited] by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E. Annie Proulx.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.Description: xvii, 381 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395798663
  • 9780395798669
  • 0395798655
  • 9780395798652
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 B4 1997
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / E. Annie Proulx -- [pt. 1]. Manners and right behavior -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Under the pitons / Robert Stone -- Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke -- Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen -- [pt. 2]. Identifying the stranger -- Transactions / Michelle Cliff -- Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch -- Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick -- Eternal love / Karen E. Bender -- A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels -- St. Martin / Lydia Davis -- [pt. 3]. Perceived social values -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot D�iaz -- From Willow Temple / Donald Hall -- Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton -- Missing women / June Spence -- Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Soon / Pam Durban -- [pt. 4]. Rites of passage -- Shipmates down under / Michael Byers -- Powder / Tobias Wolff -- Search Bay / Alyson Hagy -- Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1996 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Summary: A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Carolyn Cooke, Leonard Michaels, Clyde Edgerton, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1996.
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Foreword -- Introduction / E. Annie Proulx -- [pt. 1]. Manners and right behavior -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Under the pitons / Robert Stone -- Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke -- Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen -- [pt. 2]. Identifying the stranger -- Transactions / Michelle Cliff -- Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch -- Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick -- Eternal love / Karen E. Bender -- A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels -- St. Martin / Lydia Davis -- [pt. 3]. Perceived social values -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot D�iaz -- From Willow Temple / Donald Hall -- Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton -- Missing women / June Spence -- Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Soon / Pam Durban -- [pt. 4]. Rites of passage -- Shipmates down under / Michael Byers -- Powder / Tobias Wolff -- Search Bay / Alyson Hagy -- Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1996 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Carolyn Cooke, Leonard Michaels, Clyde Edgerton, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1996.

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