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Title The best American short stories, 1986 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Raymond Carver with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Raymond Carver.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS648.S5 B42 1986  1986    Available  ---
Description xxii, 325 pages ; 22 cm
Note Biographical notes: p. [307]-309.
"Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [315]-325.
Bibliography "100 other distinguished short stories of the year, 1985": pages 311-314.
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.
Subject Short stories, American.
Short stories, American.
Genre/Form Short stories, American.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.
Ravenel, Shannon.
ISBN 0395383994 : $15.95
9780395383995