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Title The best American short stories, 1996 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by John Edgar Wideman with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by John Edgar Wideman.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  FICTION BEST    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  808.83 BEST 1996    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F BEST AMERICAN 1996    Check Shelf
Description xx, 363 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Foreword -- Introduction / John Edgar Wideman -- Complicities / Alice Adams -- Fires / Rick Bass -- Driving the heart / Jason Brown -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Fitting ends / Dan Chaon -- The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies -- Ysrael / Junot Diaz -- Sleep / Stephen Dixon -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan -- Intertextuality / Mary Gordon -- Past my future / David Huddle -- Bright winter / Anna Keesey -- In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A stand of fables / William Lychack -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos -- Some say the world / Susan Perabo -- The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma -- All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories.
Subject Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
Canadian fiction -- 20th century.
Added Author Wideman, John Edgar.
Kenison, Katrina.
ISBN 0395752906 paperback
0395752914
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