The Best American short stories, 1982 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
The Best American short stories, 1982 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
by John Gardner with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by John Gardner.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
- xix, 374 p. ; 22 cm.
Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Dancing ducks and talking anus / James Ferry -- The courtship of Widow Sobcek / Joanna Higgins -- Good rockin' tonight / William Hauptman -- Shelter the pilgrim / Fred Licht -- Coach / Mary Robison -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- K. 590 / Nicholson Baker -- The dolphin story / Joyce Renwick -- The continental heart / Lissa McLaughlin -- The cafe de Paris / Roberta Gupta -- The power of language is such that even a single word taken truly to heart can change everything / Alvin Greenberg -- The gift horse's mouth / R.E. Smith -- Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter -- Coming over / Edith Milton -- The girl who was no kin to the Marshalls / Anne Hobson Freeman -- Prize tomatoes / Anne F. Rosner -- Proud monster-sketches / Ian MacMillan -- Lamb says / Rosanne Coggeshall -- Theft / Joyce Carol Oates.
0395322073
82011972
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1982
Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Dancing ducks and talking anus / James Ferry -- The courtship of Widow Sobcek / Joanna Higgins -- Good rockin' tonight / William Hauptman -- Shelter the pilgrim / Fred Licht -- Coach / Mary Robison -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- K. 590 / Nicholson Baker -- The dolphin story / Joyce Renwick -- The continental heart / Lissa McLaughlin -- The cafe de Paris / Roberta Gupta -- The power of language is such that even a single word taken truly to heart can change everything / Alvin Greenberg -- The gift horse's mouth / R.E. Smith -- Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter -- Coming over / Edith Milton -- The girl who was no kin to the Marshalls / Anne Hobson Freeman -- Prize tomatoes / Anne F. Rosner -- Proud monster-sketches / Ian MacMillan -- Lamb says / Rosanne Coggeshall -- Theft / Joyce Carol Oates.
0395322073
82011972
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1982