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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.Description: xx, 363 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395752906
  • 9780395752906
  • 0395752914
  • 9780395752913
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 B4 1996
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / John Edgar Wideman -- Complicities / Alice Adams -- Fires / Rick Bass -- Driving the heart / Jason Brown -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Fitting ends / Dan Chaon -- The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies -- Ysrael / Junot D�iaz -- Sleep / Stephen Dixon -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan -- Intertextuality / Mary Gordon -- Past my future / David Huddle -- Bright winter / Anna Keesey -- In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A stand of fables / William Lychack -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos -- Some say the world / Susan Perabo -- The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma -- All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories.
Summary: 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.
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Foreword -- Introduction / John Edgar Wideman -- Complicities / Alice Adams -- Fires / Rick Bass -- Driving the heart / Jason Brown -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Fitting ends / Dan Chaon -- The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies -- Ysrael / Junot D�iaz -- Sleep / Stephen Dixon -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan -- Intertextuality / Mary Gordon -- Past my future / David Huddle -- Bright winter / Anna Keesey -- In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A stand of fables / William Lychack -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos -- Some say the world / Susan Perabo -- The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma -- All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories.

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.

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