The Best American Short Stories, 1997 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
[edited] by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E. Annie Proulx. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1997. 
 - xvii, 381 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Foreword --  Introduction /  Manners and right behavior --  Saboteur /  Under the pitons /  Bob Darling /  Chez Lambert /  Identifying the stranger --  Transactions /  Nobody in Hollywood /  Save my child! /  Eternal love /  A girl with a monkey /  St. Martin /  Perceived social values --  Fiesta, 1980 /  From Willow Temple /  Killing babies /  Send me to the electric chair /  Missing women /  Air mail /  Soon /  Rites of passage --  Shipmates down under /  Powder /  Search Bay /  Little frogs in a ditch /  Contributors' notes --  100 other distinguished stories of 1996 --  Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.  E. Annie Proulx --  Ha Jin --  Robert Stone --  Carolyn Cooke --  Jonathan Franzen --  Michelle Cliff --  Richard Bausch --  Cynthia Ozick --  Karen E. Bender --  Leonard Michaels --  Lydia Davis --  Junot D�iaz --  Donald Hall --  T. Coraghessan Boyle --  Clyde Edgerton --  June Spence --  Jeffrey Eugenides --  Pam Durban --  Michael Byers --  Tobias Wolff --  Alyson Hagy --  Tim Gautreaux --  [pt. 1].  [pt. 2].  [pt. 3].  [pt. 4]. 
<br/><br/> A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Carolyn Cooke, Leonard Michaels, Clyde Edgerton, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1996. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395798663 9780395798669 0395798655 9780395798652 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 648 .S5 B4 1997