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| 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.
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