The best American short stories, 1982 /
This new volume in the popular series contains "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, "Coach" by Mary Robinson, "Theft" by Joyce Carol Oates and "The Dolphin Story" by Joyce Renwick; other authors represented include Hames Ferry, Joanna Higgins, Fred Licht and Alvin G...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Company,
1982.
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| Series: | Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cathedral / Raymond Carver
- Dancing ducks and talking anus / James Ferry
- The courtship of Widow Sobcek / Joanna Higgins
- Good rockin' tonight / William Hauptmann
- Shelter the pilgrim / Fred Licht
- Coach / Mary Robison
- Exchange value / Charles Johnson
- K. 590 / Nicholson Baker
- The dolphin story / Joyce Renwick
- The continental heart / Lissa McLaughlin
- The Café de Paris / Roberta Gupta
- The power of language is such that even a single word taken truly to heart can change everything / Alvin Greenberg
- The gift horse's mouth / R.E. Smith
- Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter
- Coming over / Edith Milton
- The girl who was no kin to the Marshalls / Anne Hobson Freeman
- Prize tomatoes / Anne F. Rosner
- Proud monster--sketches / Ian MacMillan
- Lamb says / Rosanne Coggeshall
- Theft / Joyce Carol Oates.