Title The Best American short stories, 1999 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / [edited] by Amy Tan with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Amy Tan.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS648.S5 B42 1999 1999	Available	---

Description	xxviii, 410 pages ; 22 cm
Contents	Foreword -- Introduction / Amy Tan -- The hermit's Story / Rick Bass -- The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Díaz -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni -- Kansas / Stephen Dobyns -- The tumblers / Nathan Englander -- The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux -- The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy -- The 5:22 / George Harrar -- Islands / A. Hemon -- the best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston -- In the kindergarten / Ha Jin -- Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits -- Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan -- Africans / Sheilia Kohler -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Real estate / Lorrie Moore -- Save the reaper / Alice Munro -- The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx -- The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer -- The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay -- The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1998 -- 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	Tan, Amy.
	Kenison, Katrina.
ISBN	0395926831
	9780395926833