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Scenes from American life : contemporary short fiction / edited by Joyce Carol Oates author of "Marriages and Infidelities," "Them," etc.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, x, 271 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1973]
- Contents:
- The bitter bread / Jesse Hill Ford
- Flight / John Updike
- The boat / Alistair MacLeod
- The fancy woman / Peter Taylor
- Of cabbages and kings / James Alan McPherson
- Mending wall / Willard Marxh
- The hunters / Harris Downey
- The siege / Sol Yurick
- The demonstrators / Eudora Welty
- The third ocean / Hollis Summers
- In the zoo / Jean Stafford
- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud
- The singer / David Madden
- Plot / Joyce Carol Oates
- A dolphin in the forest, a wild boar on the waves / Charles Newman
- The Dachau shoe / W. S. Merwin
- Make this simple test / W. S. Merwin
- Postcards from the Maginot Line / W. S. Merwin
- A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin
- The hat act / Robert Coover
- Autobiography: a self-recorded fiction / John Barth.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Scenes from American life.
- ISBN:
- 0814907504 :
- 9780814907504
- OCLC:
- 847951
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