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The best American short stories, 1987

Author: Ann Beattie; Shannon Ravenel
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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.

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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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