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Playboy stories : the best of forty years of short fiction

Author: Alice K Turner
Publisher: New York : Dutton, 1995, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alice K Turner
ISBN: 0452271177 9780452271173
OCLC Number: 33957469
Notes: 1st Plume printing 1995.
Originally published: New York : Dutton, c1994.
Description: x, 609 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Black country / Charles Beaumont --
All married women are bad, yes? / Herbert Gold --
A flourish of strumpets / Richard Matheson --
In a season of calm weather / Ray Bradbury --
Just like the girl / James Jones --
A fine son / Roald Dahl --
A great voice stilled / Shirley Jackson --
The killer in the TV set / Bruce Jay Friedman --
Brother Endicott / James Thurber --
Naked nude / Bernard Malamud. An actor's life for me / Philip Roth --
Good blonde / Jack Kerouac --
The manchild / James Baldwin --
Where all things wise and fair descend / Irwin Shaw --
The yellow room / John Cheever --
I am dying, Egypt, dying / John Updike --
Saul Bird says, relate! communicate! liberate! / Joyce Carol Oates --
The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The dashing fellow / Vladimir Nabokov --
The last carrousel / Nelson Algren --
The conservationist / Nadine Gordimer --
Brennbar's rant / John Irving --
Asking for it / John Collier --
Trial of the warlock / Norman Mailer --
The other / Jorge Luis Borges --
A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
White lies / Paul Theroux. May I have some marmalade, please? / Sean O'Faolain --
Anna / Andre Dubus --
My mistress / Laurie Colwin --
Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane --
Julius Caesar and the werewolf / John Gardner --
Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis --
The middleman / Bharati Mukherjee --
Yossarian survives / Joseph Heller --
Modern love / T. Coraghessan Boyle --
Lucky Pierre in the doctor's office / Robert Coover --
Unlocking the air / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Kwoon / Charles Johnson --
The second bakery attack / Haruki Murakami --
How it ended / Jay McInerney.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Alice K. Turner.

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