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The best American short stories 1984

Author: John Updike; Shannon Ravenel
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Again, with this 1984 volume, the best continue to select the 'Best.' This year the leading American fiction writer serving as guest editor is John Updike, and his choices reflect the variety and vigor that has returned to the American short story in this decade."
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Best American short stories 1984.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984
(OCoLC)760072223
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Updike; Shannon Ravenel
ISBN: 0395354137 9780395354131 0395365120 9780395365120
OCLC Number: 27042269
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxii, 295 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The final proof of fate and circumstance / Lee K. Abbott --
The naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell --
Unknown feathers / Dianne Benedict --
In the red room / Paul Bowles --
The cure / Mary Ward Brown --
Gent / Rick DeMarinis --
A father's story / Andre Dubus --
Lena / Mavis Gallant --
Inexorable progress / Mary Hood --
The artificial moonlight / Donald Justice --
Morrison's reaction / Stephen Kirk --
Thorofare / Susan Minot --
Glimpse into another country / Wright Morris --
Nairobi / Joyce Carol Oates --
Rosa / Cynthia Ozick --
The cold room / Lowry Pei --
Things to be thrown away / Jonathan Penner --
Bruns / Norman Rush --
Foreign shores / James Salter --
Caddie's Day / Jeanne Schinto.
Responsibility: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by John Updike with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by John Updike.

Abstract:

"Again, with this 1984 volume, the best continue to select the 'Best.' This year the leading American fiction writer serving as guest editor is John Updike, and his choices reflect the variety and vigor that has returned to the American short story in this decade."

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