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Playboy stories : the best of forty years of short fiction / edited and with an introduction by Alice K. Turner.
LIBRA Special PS648.S5 P53 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 609 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Dutton published by the Penguin Group], [1994]
- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Dutton Book."
- ISBN:
- 0525937358
- OCLC:
- 28583199
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