The Best American Short Stories, 2000 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / [edited] by E.L. Doctorow with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E.L. Doctorow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.Description: xvi, 381 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395926874
  • 9780395926871
  • 0395926866
  • 9780395926864
Uniform titles:
  • The Best American Short Stories (Boston, Mass. : 1978)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 B5 2000
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / E.L. Doctorow -- Black Elvis / Geoffrey Becker -- The story / Amy Bloom -- The beautiful days / Michael Byers -- The ordinary son / Ron Carlson -- Call if you need me / Raymond Carver -- Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport -- Nilda / Junot D�iaz -- The gilgul of Park Avenue / Nathan Englander -- The fix / Percival Everett -- Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux -- He's at the office / Allan Gurganus -- Blind Jozef Pronek / Aleksandar Hemon -- The anointed / Kathleen Hill -- The bridegroom / Ha Jin -- The thing around them / Marilyn Krysl -- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Pet fly / Walter Mosley -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Allog / Edith Pearlman -- People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx -- Basil the dog / Frances Sherwood -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1952 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Summary: A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1952 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1952.
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Foreword -- Introduction / E.L. Doctorow -- Black Elvis / Geoffrey Becker -- The story / Amy Bloom -- The beautiful days / Michael Byers -- The ordinary son / Ron Carlson -- Call if you need me / Raymond Carver -- Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport -- Nilda / Junot D�iaz -- The gilgul of Park Avenue / Nathan Englander -- The fix / Percival Everett -- Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux -- He's at the office / Allan Gurganus -- Blind Jozef Pronek / Aleksandar Hemon -- The anointed / Kathleen Hill -- The bridegroom / Ha Jin -- The thing around them / Marilyn Krysl -- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Pet fly / Walter Mosley -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Allog / Edith Pearlman -- People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx -- Basil the dog / Frances Sherwood -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1952 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1952 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1952.

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