The Best American Short Stories, 1996 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
The Best American Short Stories, 1996 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
by John Edgar Wideman with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by John Edgar Wideman.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
- xx, 363 pages ; 22 cm
Foreword -- Introduction / Complicities / Fires / Driving the heart / Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / The eve of the Spirit Festival / Fitting ends / The silver screen / Ysrael / Sleep / Paper lantern / The incredible appearing man / Intertextuality / Past my future / Bright winter / In Roseau / Shades / A stand of fables / Ghost girls / Sculpture I / Some say the world / The trip to Halawa Valley / If you sing like that for me / All shall love me and despair / Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories. John Edgar Wideman -- Alice Adams -- Rick Bass -- Jason Brown -- Robert Olen Butler -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Dan Chaon -- Peter Ho Davies -- Junot D�iaz -- Stephen Dixon -- Stuart Dybek -- Deborah Galyan -- Mary Gordon -- David Huddle -- Anna Keesey -- Jamaica Kincaid -- William Henry Lewis -- William Lychack -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Angela Patrinos -- Susan Perabo -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Akhil Sharma -- Jean Thompson -- Melanie Rae Thon --
A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Mary Gordon, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, and Jamaica Kincaid. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1995.
0395752906 9780395752906 0395752914 9780395752913
Short stories, American.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
PS 648 .S5 B4 1996
Foreword -- Introduction / Complicities / Fires / Driving the heart / Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / The eve of the Spirit Festival / Fitting ends / The silver screen / Ysrael / Sleep / Paper lantern / The incredible appearing man / Intertextuality / Past my future / Bright winter / In Roseau / Shades / A stand of fables / Ghost girls / Sculpture I / Some say the world / The trip to Halawa Valley / If you sing like that for me / All shall love me and despair / Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories. John Edgar Wideman -- Alice Adams -- Rick Bass -- Jason Brown -- Robert Olen Butler -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Dan Chaon -- Peter Ho Davies -- Junot D�iaz -- Stephen Dixon -- Stuart Dybek -- Deborah Galyan -- Mary Gordon -- David Huddle -- Anna Keesey -- Jamaica Kincaid -- William Henry Lewis -- William Lychack -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Angela Patrinos -- Susan Perabo -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Akhil Sharma -- Jean Thompson -- Melanie Rae Thon --
A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Mary Gordon, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, and Jamaica Kincaid. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1995.
0395752906 9780395752906 0395752914 9780395752913
Short stories, American.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
PS 648 .S5 B4 1996