The Best American Short Stories, 1979 : Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines /
by Joyce Carol Oates, with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introd. by Joyce Carol Oates.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
- xxii, 352 p. ; 22 cm.
Including the Yearbook of the American short story.
A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- An exile in the East / Flannery O'Connor -- Home and native land / Sean Virgo -- A short walk into afternoon / Kaatje Hurlbut -- Shadrach / William Styron -- The wedding week / Rosellen Brown -- A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The quail / Rolf Yngve -- Some Manhattan in New England / Peter LaSalle -- Plaisir d'amour / Lynne Sahron Schwartz -- Falling off the scaffold / Lyn Coffin -- Spelling / Alice Munro -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin -- Living alone / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- The middle place / Mary Hedin -- The quarterback speaks to his God / Herbert Wilner -- Trip in a summer dress / Annette Sanford -- The eye / Paul Bowles -- Paper covers rock / Jean Thompson -- The missing person / Maxine Kumin -- Finisterre / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- A lingering death / Silvia Tennenbaum -- Home is the hero / Bernard Malamud -- The new music / Donald Ba