TY - BOOK AU - Doctorow,E.L. AU - Kenison,Katrina TI - The Best American Short Stories, 2000: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines T2 - The Best American series SN - 0395926874 AV - PS 648 .S5 B5 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories, Canadian KW - American fiction KW - 21st century KW - Canadian fiction N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -