The best American short stories of the century /John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.
Description
Zelig /Benjamin Rosenblatt --Little selves /Mary Lerner --Jury of her peers /Susan Glaspell --Other woman /Sherwood Anderson --Golden honeymoon /Ring Lardner --Blood-burning moon /Jean Toomer --Killers /Ernest Hemingway --Resurrection of a life /William Saroyan --Christmas gift /Robert Penn Warren --Bright and morning star /Richard Wright --Hitch-hikers /Eudora Welty --Peach stone /Paul Horgan --"That in Aleppo once..." /Vladimir Nabokov --Interior castle /Jean Stafford --Miami-New York /Martha Gellhorn --Second tree from the corner /E.B. White --Farmer's children /Elizabeth Bishop --Death of a favorite /J.F. Powers --Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin /Tennessee Williams --Country husband /John Cheever --Greenleaf /Flannery O'Connor --Ledge /Lawrence Sargent Hall --Defender of the faith /Philip Roth --Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers /Stanley Elkin --German refugee /Bernard Malamud --Where are you going, where have you been? /Joyce Carol Oates --Rotifer /Mary Ladd Gavell --Gold Coast /James Alan McPherson --Key /Isaac Bashevis Singer --Cty of churches /Donald Barthelme --How to win /Rosellen speaks /Harold Brodkey --Silver dish /Saul Bellow --Gesturing /John Updike --Shawl /Cynthia Ozick --Where I'm calling from /Raymond Carver --Janus /Ann Beattie --Way we live now /Susan Sontag --Things they carried /Tim O'Brien --Meneseteung /Alice Munro --You're ugly, too /Lorrie Moore --I want to live ! /Thom Jones --In the gloaming /Alice Elliott Dark --Proper library /Carolyn Ferrell --Birthmates /Gish Jen --Soon /Pam Durban --Half-skinned steer /Annie Proulx.
xxiv, 835 p. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Boston
Date Published
circa 2000
Publication Subjects
Short stories, American.
American fiction--20th century.