skip to content
The best American short stories. 2000 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
ClosePreview this item

The best American short stories. 2000 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines

Author: E L Doctorow; Katrina Kenison
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Series: Best American series.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1999 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1999.
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: E L Doctorow; Katrina Kenison
ISBN: 0395926874 9780395926871 0395926866 9780395926864
OCLC Number: 45106792
Description: xvi, 381 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Foreword --
Introduction / E.L. Doctorow --
Black Elvis / Geoffrey Becker --
The story / Amy Bloom --
The beautiful days / Michael Byers --
The ordinary son / Ron Carlson --
Call if you need me / Raymond Carver --
Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport --
Nilda / Junot Díaz --
The gilgul of Park Avenue / Nathan Englander --
The fix / Percival Everett --
Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux --
He's at the office / Allan Gurganus --
Blind Jozef Pronek / Aleksandar Hemon --
The anointed / Kathleen Hill --
The bridegroom / Ha Jin --
The thing around them / Marilyn Krysl --
The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Pet fly / Walter Mosley --
Brownies / ZZ Packer --
Allog / Edith Pearlman --
People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx --
Basil the dog / Frances Sherwood --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1999 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Series Title: Best American series.
Other Titles: Best American short stories (Boston, Mass. : 1978)
Responsibility: [edited] by E.L. Doctorow with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E.L. Doctorow.

Abstract:

A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1999 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1999.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45106792>
library:oclcnum"45106792"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/45106792>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Intangible
schema:name"Nouvelles américaines"
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Intangible
schema:name"Short stories, Canadian (English)"
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Intangible
schema:name"Nouvelles canadiennes-anglaises"
schema:contributor
schema:contributor
schema:datePublished"2000"
schema:description"A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1999 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1999."
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"The best American short stories. selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines"
schema:numberOfPages"381"
schema:publisher
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.