| Description |
xxiii, 341 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Contributors notes: p. [313]-325. |
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"Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [330]-341. |
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"100 other distinguished short stories of the year 1988": p. [326]-329. |
| Contents |
Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell -- Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd -- Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown -- Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis -- Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr -- Concert party / Mavis Gallant -- Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover -- Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy -- Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan -- Displacement / David Wong Louie -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips -- Strays / Mark Richard -- Boy on the train / Arthur Robinson -- Letter writer / M.T. Sharif. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
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Ravenel, Shannon.
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| ISBN |
0395470978 |
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9780395470978 |
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0395470986 paperback |
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9780395470985 paperback |
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