Research Catalog

Title

Best of the West 2011 : new stories from the wide side of the Missouri / edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton ; foreword by Ana Castillo.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thomas, James, 1946-
• Horton, D. Seth, 1976-

Description

xvi, 277 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of twenty short Western stories, including "Coach," "Uncle Rock," "Looking for boll weevil," and more.

Subject

• Short stories, American > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Coach, from the Idaho review / Rick Bass -- The silence, from The Atlantic / T.C. Boyle -- Escape from prison, from Tin house / Ron Carlson -- Bonnie and Clyde in the backyard, from Glimmer train / K.L. Cook -- Melinda, from The Kenyon review / Judy Doenges -- Uncle Rock, from The New Yorker / Dagoberto Gilb -- Drive, from The Gettysburg review / Aaron Gwyn -- Looking for boll weevil, from from The hilltop / Toni Jensen -- Two years, from Narrative / Tim Johnston -- Same as it was when you left, from The Bat City review / Alyssa Knickerbocker -- Nevada, from The Southern humanities review / Kate Krautkramer -- Lunch across the bridge, from The Antioch review / Peter Lasalle -- Alone, from The New Yorker / Yiyun Li -- Horn hunter, from The Antioch review / Michael J. Macleod -- What you do out here, when you're alone, from The New Yorker / Philipp Meyer -- Iff, from Tin house / Antonya Nelson -- Creatures of the kingdom, from Epoch / Stephanie Reents -- Five shorts, from Day out of days : stories / Sam Shepard -- Opposition in all things, from Ecotone / Shawn Vestal -- The last thing we need, from Granta / Claire Vaye Watkins.

ISBN

• 9780292728790 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0292728794 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2011019072
• 40019859124

OCLC

714734729

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library