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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Annie Proulx; Katrina Kenison |
| ISBN: | 0395798663 : 9780395798669 0395798655 9780395798652 |
| OCLC Number: | 37850046 |
| Description: | xvii, 381 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Introduction / E. Annie Proulx -- [pt. 1]. Manners and right behavior -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Under the pitons / Robert Stone -- Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke -- Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen -- [pt. 2]. Identifying the stranger -- Transactions / Michelle Cliff -- Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch -- Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick -- Eternal love / Karen E. Bender -- A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels -- St. Martin / Lydia Davis -- [pt. 3]. Perceived social values -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot D'iaz -- From Willow Temple / Donald Hall -- Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton -- Missing women / June Spence -- Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Soon / Pam Durban -- [pt. 4]. Rites of passage -- Shipmates down under / Michael Byers -- Powder / Tobias Wolff -- Search Bay / Alyson Hagy -- Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1996 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. |
| Responsibility: | [edited] by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by E. Annie Proulx. |
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