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The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology:


Title Author (Originally
Published In)
With Che In New Hampshire Russell Banks (New American Review)
Dotson Gerber Resurrected Hal Bennett (Playboy)
The Widow, Bereft James Blake (Esquire)
I Take Care Of Things Jack Cady (The Yale Review)
Barbed Wire Robert Canzoneri (The Southern Review)
The Chicken Which Became A Rat Albert Drake (The Northwest Review)
The Dancing Boy William Eastlake (Evergreen Review)
Pain Was My Portion Beth Harvor (The Hudson Review)
No Trace David Madden (The Southern Review)
Diesel Don Mitchell (Shenandoah)
The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson Marion Montgomery (The Georgia Review)
Magic Wright Morris (The Southern Review)
The Gift Bearer Philip F. O'Connor (The Southern Review)
Requa I Tillie Olsen (The Iowa Review)
Shirt Talk Ivan Prashker (Harper's Magazine)
In Late Youth Norman Rush (Epoch)
The Somebody Danny Santiago (Redbook)
Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One Jonathan Strong (Triquarterly)
The Klausners Leonard Tushnet (Prairie Schooner)
Bloodflowers W. D. Valgardson (Tamarack Review)
The Suitor L. Woiwode (Mccall's Magazine)
Publish Date
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
378

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Cover of: The Best American Short Stories 1971
Cover of: The Best American Short Stories 1971
The Best American Short Stories 1971
1971, Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Best American Short Stories 1971
The Best American Short Stories 1971: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
1971, Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Best American Short Stories 1971
The Best American Short Stories 1971
November 1971, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Series
The Best [American] Short Stories
Copyright Date
1971

Contributors

Editor
Martha Foley
Editor
David Burnett

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
378

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL13769910M
Internet Archive
bestamericanshor1954unse_f2s8
ISBN 10
0395127092
LCCN
16011387

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6570962W

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