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American short story masterpieces / edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks.
- Title
- American short story masterpieces / edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks.
- Publication
- New York : Delacorte Press, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS648.S5 A49 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 512 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 36 stories are presented to represent consequential story writing from the apst 30 years. Included, among others, are stories by Malamud, Beattie, Updike, Paley, O'Connor, and Baldwin.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Weekend / Ann Beattie -- The bystander / Gina Berriault -- The Amish farmer / Vance Bourjaily -- 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 / Richard Brautigan -- Verona : a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Talk of heroes / Carol Bly -- Fever / Raymond Carver -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- Willi / E.L. Doctorow -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- Rock Springs / Richard Ford / The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The ledge / Lawrence S. Hall -- Water liars / Barry Hannah -- Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin -- Ile forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The magic barrel / Barnard Malamud -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The story of a scar / James A. McPherson -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- The misfits / Arthur Miller -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce C. Oates -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley -- The heavenly animal / Jayne A. Phillips -- Walking out / David Quammen -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Akhnilo / James Salter -- The Christian roomates / John Updike -- The wedding / Joy Williams -- The liar / Tobias Wolff.
- ISBN
- 0385295243
- LCCN
- ^^^86019964^//r96
- OCLC
- 14212660
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library