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The Editors' choice : new American stories / compiled by George E. Murphy, Jr.
LIBRA PS648.S5 E34 1985 v.2 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1985-
- Contents:
- v. 1. Alaska / Alice Adams
- When it happens / Margaret Atwood
- Frank & Billy / Laurie Colwin
- Winter kill / Richard Ford
- Recourse / Tess Gallagher
- Self-defense / Molly Giles
- Safe / Mary Gordon
- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
- Inexorable progress / Mary Hood
- Counting months / David Leavitt
- Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane
- Tough as a man / Beth Nugent
- A new life / Janet Beeler Shaw
- Crystal River / Charlie Smith
- Teenage wasteland / Anne Tyler
- Land fishers / Robley Wilson, Jr.
- Desert breakdown 1968 / Tobias Wolff
- Woe to live on / Daniel Woodrell
- v. 2. Two-head Fred and tree-foot Frieda / Robert William Antoni
- The salt garden / Margaret Atwood
- The "New Yorker" story / Martha Bayles
- Monologue of the movie mogul / Michael Covino
- Land where my fathers died / Andre Dubus
- Saving the dead / Kurt Duecker
- Fire ants / Gerald Duff
- All set about with fever trees / Pam Durban
- Julius Caesar and the werewolf / John Gardner
- Here comes the sun / Janette Turner Hospital
- The quickening / Lisa Interollo
- Harmony / Janet Kauffman
- The rise, fall, and redemption of Mooski Toffski Offski / James Howard Kunstler
- City of boys / Beth Nugent
- Taking a chance on Jack / Ilene Raymond
- Redemption songs / Bob Shacochis
- The small things that save us / Brent Spencer
- The sacking of Miss Plimsoll / Trevanian
- Turning out / Gayle Whittier
- v. 3. Time and fear and somehow love / Lee K. Abbott
- Secrets men keep / Linsey Abrams
- Zero DB / Madison Smartt Bell
- The hat / T. Coraghessan Boyle
- At the hop / Ron Carlson
- A lesson in traveling light / Deborah Eisenberg
- The leper / Tess Gallagher
- The perfect stone / Ellen Gilchrist
- Death of a nation / Ernst Havemann
- Big Dog / Norman Lavers
- Exits / Paul Leslie
- How Esco Mize got religion / James McCulla
- Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis
- The old man tells his story and gets it wrong / Richard Spilman
- Ice / Marian Thurm
- Safe / Ellen Wilbur
- Health / Joy Williams
- Soldier's joy / Tobias Wolff
- v. 4. Inside dope / Gail Galloway Adams
- The whirlpool rapids / Margaret Atwood
- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / Russell Banks
- Surprised by joy / Charles Baxter
- The scientic method / Robert Cohen
- The dancing party / Mary Gordon
- In the air, over our heads / Amy Herrick
- The Dominican season / Janette Turner Hospital
- Trouble people / Sara Lewis
- Country things / Todd Lieber
- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann
- A man in Louisiana / Thomas McGuane
- Inventing the Abbotts / Sue Miller
- The middle man / Bharati Mukherjee
- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
- Underground / Rachel Pastan
- Migrants / Elizabeth Tallent
- Massé / Leigh Allison Wilson.
- Notes:
- "A Bantam/Wampeter Press book."
- ISBN:
- 0553341766
- OCLC:
- 28022078
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