| Description |
viii, 609 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Black country / Charles Beaumont -- All married women are bad, yes? / Herbert Gold -- A flourish of strumpets / Richard Matheson -- In a season of calm weather / Ray Bradbury -- Just like the girl / James Jones -- A fine son / Roald Dahl -- A great voice stilled / Shirley Jackson -- The killer in the TV set / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Brother Endicott / James Thurber -- Naked nude / Bernard Malamud -- An actor's life for me / Philip Roth -- Good blonde / Jack Kerouac -- The manchild / James Baldwin -- Where all things wise and fair descend / Irwin Shaw -- The yellow room / John Cheever -- I am dying, Egypt, dying / John Updike -- Saul Bird says, relate! communicate! liberate! / Joyce Carol Oates -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The dashing fellow / Vladimir Nabokov -- The last carrousel / Nelson Algren -- The conservationist / Nadine Gordimer -- Brennbar's rant / John Irving -- Asking for it / John Collier -- Trial of the warlock / Norman Mailer -- The other / Jorge Luis Borges -- A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- White lies / Paul Theroux -- May I have some marmalade, please? / Sean O'Faolain -- Anna / Andre Dubus -- My mistress / Laurie Colwin -- Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane -- Julius Caesar and the werewolf / John Gardner -- Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis -- The middleman / Bharati Mukherjee -- Yossarian survives / Joseph Heller -- Modern love / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Lucky Pierre in the doctor's office / Robert Coover -- Unlocking the air / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Kwoon / Charles Johnson -- The second bakery attack / Haruki Murakami -- How it ended / Jay McInerney. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Turner, Alice K.
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| ISBN |
0525937358: $24.95 ($33.99 Can.) |
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9780525937357 |
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