The Best American Short Stories, 1991 /

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. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991. - xxii , 426 p. ; 22 cm.

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

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Short stories, American.
American fiction--20th century.

PS648.S5 / B4 1991