TY  - BOOK
AU  - Proulx,Annie
AU  - Kenison,Katrina
TI  - The Best American Short Stories, 1997: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines 
SN  - 0395798663
AV  - PS 648 .S5 B4 1997 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Short stories, Canadian
KW  - Canadian fiction
N1  - Foreword --; Introduction; E. Annie Proulx --; [pt. 1]; Manners and right behavior --; Saboteur; Ha Jin --; Under the pitons; Robert Stone --; Bob Darling; Carolyn Cooke --; Chez Lambert; Jonathan Franzen --; [pt. 2]; Identifying the stranger --; Transactions; Michelle Cliff --; Nobody in Hollywood; Richard Bausch --; Save my child!; Cynthia Ozick --; Eternal love; Karen E. Bender --; A girl with a monkey; Leonard Michaels --; St. Martin; Lydia Davis --; [pt. 3]; Perceived social values --; Fiesta, 1980; Junot D�iaz --; From Willow Temple; Donald Hall --; Killing babies; T. Coraghessan Boyle --; Send me to the electric chair; Clyde Edgerton --; Missing women; June Spence --; Air mail; Jeffrey Eugenides --; Soon; Pam Durban --; [pt. 4]; Rites of passage --; Shipmates down under; Michael Byers --; Powder; Tobias Wolff --; Search Bay; Alyson Hagy --; Little frogs in a ditch; Tim Gautreaux --; Contributors' notes --; 100 other distinguished stories of 1996 --; Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories
N2  - 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
ER  -