The Best American Short Stories, 1998 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / [edited] by Garrison Keillor with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Garrison Keillor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.Description: xvii, 315 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395875153
  • 9780395875155
  • 0395875145
  • 9780395875148
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Best American short stories, 1998.LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 B4 1998
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / Garrison Keillor -- Appetites / Kathryn Chetkovich -- The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue / Poe Ballantine -- Body language / Diane Schoemperlen -- Chance / Edith Pearlman -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Elvis has left the building / Carol Anshaw -- Every night for a thousand years / Chris Adrian -- Flower children / Maxine Swann -- Glory goes and gets some / Emily Carter -- The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx -- Morphine / Doran Larson -- Mr. Sweetly Indecent / Bliss Broyard -- My father on the verge of disgrace / John Updike -- Penance / Matthew Crain -- People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore -- Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer -- Unified front / Antonya Nelson -- Wayne in love / Padgett Powell -- Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux -- Would you know it wasn't love / Hester Kaplan -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1997 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Summary: An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.
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Foreword -- Introduction / Garrison Keillor -- Appetites / Kathryn Chetkovich -- The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue / Poe Ballantine -- Body language / Diane Schoemperlen -- Chance / Edith Pearlman -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Elvis has left the building / Carol Anshaw -- Every night for a thousand years / Chris Adrian -- Flower children / Maxine Swann -- Glory goes and gets some / Emily Carter -- The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx -- Morphine / Doran Larson -- Mr. Sweetly Indecent / Bliss Broyard -- My father on the verge of disgrace / John Updike -- Penance / Matthew Crain -- People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore -- Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer -- Unified front / Antonya Nelson -- Wayne in love / Padgett Powell -- Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux -- Would you know it wasn't love / Hester Kaplan -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1997 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.

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