Writer's choice / by John Barth [and others] ; edited and with an introd. by Rust Hills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hills, L. Rust, compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Barth, John, 1930-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Short stories, American.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 432 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : D. McKay Co., [1974]

Summary:

"Each of twenty American authors introduces his own best story."

Contents:

Lost in the funhouse / John Barth

Paraguay / Donald Barthelme

In the absence of angels / Hortense Calisher

Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote

The biggest band / R.V. Cassill

Saint Augustine's pigeon / Evan S. Connell, Jr.

I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin

Children of Ruth / George P. Elliott

Black angels / Bruce Jay Friedman

A death on the East Side / Herbert Gold

The ice-cream headache / James Jones

The time of her time / Norman Mailer

The misfits / Arthur Miller

Waiting at Dachau / Reynolds Price

A good woman / James Purdy

"I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka / Philip Roth

The road out of Axotle / Terry Southern

Leaves / John Updike

Goose Pond / Thomas Williams

A really good jazz piano / Richard Yates.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Hills, L. Rust. Writer's choice.

ISBN:

0679505040

9780679505044

0679302700

9780679302704

OCLC:

1112168