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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
325

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1986, Houghton Mifflin
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Published in

Boston

Table of Contents

Publisher's note --
Introduction -- Raymond Carver
Basil from her garden -- Donald Barthelme
Gryphon -- Charles Baxter
Janus -- Ann Beattie -- The
convict -- James Lee Burke
Star food -- Ethan Canin
Gossip -- Frank Conroy
Communist -- Richard Ford
Bad company -- Tess Gallagher
Today will be a quiet day -- Amy Hempel
Doe season -- David Michael Kaplan
Three thousand dollars -- David Lipsky
Sportsmen -- Thomas McGuane
All my relations -- Christopher McIlroy
Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux -- Alice Munro
Skin angels -- Jessica Neely
Invisible life -- Kent Nelson
Telling -- Grace Paley
Lawns -- Mona Simpson
Health -- Joy Williams -- The
rich brother -- Tobias Wolff
Biographical notes --
100 other distinguished short stories of the year 1985 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

Edition Notes

Biographical notes: p. [307]-309.

"Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [315]-325.

"100 other distinguished short stories of the year, 1985": p. [311]-314.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.0822, 813/.01/08
Library of Congress
PS648.S5 B4 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 325 p. ;
Number of pages
325

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24751328M
Internet Archive
bestamericanshor00carv
ISBN 10
0395383994, 0395383986
ISBN 13
9780395383995, 9780395383988
OCLC/WorldCat
14396795

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