| Description |
xii, 432 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- Paraguay / Donald Barthelme -- In the absence of angels / Hortense Calisher -- Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote -- The biggest band / R.V. Cassill -- Saint Augustine's pigeon / Evan S. Connell, Jr. -- I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin -- Children of Ruth / George P. Elliott -- Black angels / Bruce Jay Friedman -- A death on the East Side / Herbert Gold -- The ice-cream headache / James Jones -- The time of her time / Norman Mailer -- The misfits / Arthur Miller -- Waiting at Dachau / Reynolds Price -- A good woman / James Purdy -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- The road out of Axotle / Terry Southern -- Leaves / John Updike -- Goose Pond / Thomas Williams -- A really good jazz piano / Richard Yates. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Barth, John, 1930-
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| ISBN |
0679505040 |
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0679302700 paperback |
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