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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann Beattie; Shannon Ravenel |
| ISBN: | 0395413419 : 9780395413418 0395413427 9780395413425 |
| OCLC Number: | 16903625 |
| Notes: | Biographical notes: p. [306]-319. "100 other distinguished short stories of the year 1986": p. [320]-323. "Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [324]-334. |
| Description: | xviii, 334 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- The afterlife / John Updike -- The prince / Craig Nova -- Favor / Elizabeth Tallent -- Kingdom come / Mavis Gallant -- The lover of women / Sue Miller -- The lie detector / Madison Smartt Bell -- Circle of prayer / Alice Munro -- Dreams of distant lives / Lee K. Abbott -- Men under water / Ralph Lombreglia -- Boxes / Raymond Carver -- The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee -- The blue men / Joy Williams -- Private debts/Public holdings / Kent Haruf -- How I found my brother / Charles Baxter -- The other Miller / Tobias Wolfe -- Lady of Spain / Robert Taylor, Jr. -- The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud: a story / Daniel Stern -- Milk / Ron Carlson -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien. |
| Responsibility: | selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Ann Beattie with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Ann Beattie. |
Abstract:
A mixture of the works of new writers and well-known talents, this anthology of outstanding short stories features fiction by Margaret Atwood, Sue Miller, and authors whose works appeared in literary magazines or large-circulaton periodicals.
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