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Title The Best American short stories, 1997 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / [edited] by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E. Annie Proulx.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS648.S5 B42 1997  1997    Available  ---
Description xvii, 381 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Foreword -- Introduction / E. Annie Proulx -- [pt. 1]. Manners and right behavior -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Under the pitons / Robert Stone -- Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke -- Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen -- [pt. 2]. Identifying the stranger -- Transactions / Michelle Cliff -- Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch -- Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick -- Eternal love / Karen E. Bender -- A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels -- St. Martin / Lydia Davis -- [pt. 3]. Perceived social values -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot D'iaz -- From Willow Temple / Donald Hall -- Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton -- Missing women / June Spence -- Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Soon / Pam Durban -- [pt. 4]. Rites of passage -- Shipmates down under / Michael Byers -- Powder / Tobias Wolff -- Search Bay / Alyson Hagy -- Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1996 -- 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
Subject Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories, Canadian.
Genre/Form Short stories, Canadian.
Subject Canadian fiction -- 20th century.
Canadian fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Proulx, Annie.
Kenison, Katrina.
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