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Scenes from American life; contemporary short fiction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [1973]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
Table of Contents:
  • The bitter bread, by J. H. Ford
  • Flight, by J. Updike
  • The boat, by A. MacLeod
  • The fancy woman, by P. Taylor
  • Of cabbage and kings, by J. A. McPherson
  • Mending wall, by W. Marsh
  • The hunters, by H. Downey
  • The siege, by S. Yurick
  • The demonstrators, by E. Welty
  • The third ocean, by H. Summers
  • In the zoo, by J. Stafford
  • Revelation, by F. O'Connor
  • My son the murderer, by B. Malamud
  • The singer, by D. Madden
  • A dolphin the forest, a wild boar on the waves, by C. Newman
  • Plot, by J. C. Oates
  • The Dachau shoe. Make this simple test. Postcards from the Maginot Line, by W. S. Merwin
  • A sorrowful woman, by G. Godwin
  • The hat act, by R. Coover
  • Autobiography, by J. Barth.