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American short story masterpieces /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988, Jenks, Tom
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub., [1989]
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
American fiction > 20th century.
Table of 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 Sargent Hall
  • (Cont'd) Water liars / Barry Hannah
  • Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin
  • Ile forest / Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
  • Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
  • The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson
  • Murderers / Leonard Michaels
  • The misfits / Arthur Miller
  • Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
  • A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
  • The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley
  • The heavenly animal / Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Walking out / David Quammen
  • The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
  • Akhnilo / James Salter
  • The Christian roommates / John Updike
  • The wedding / Joy Williams
  • The liar / Tobias Wolff.