The Best American short stories, 1981 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
The Best American short stories, 1981 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
by Hortense Calisher and Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Hortense Calisher.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
- xx, 348 p. ; 20 cm.
The idea of Switzerland / Walter Abish -- Small island republics / Max Apple -- Winter: 1978 / Ann Beattie -- A working day / Robert Coover -- The moth and the primrose / Vincent G. Dethier -- The winter father / Andre Dubus -- The assembly / Mavis Gallant -- The bookseller / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The future / Joseph McElroy -- Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath -- The mountains where Cithaeron is / Amelia Moseley -- Wood / Alice Munro -- Presque Isle / Joyce Carol Oates -- Shawl / Cynthia Quick -- St. Anthony chorale / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Wissler remembers / Richard Stern -- Ice / Elizabeth Tallent -- Still of some use / John Updike -- Change / Larry Woiwode.
0395312590
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1981
The idea of Switzerland / Walter Abish -- Small island republics / Max Apple -- Winter: 1978 / Ann Beattie -- A working day / Robert Coover -- The moth and the primrose / Vincent G. Dethier -- The winter father / Andre Dubus -- The assembly / Mavis Gallant -- The bookseller / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The future / Joseph McElroy -- Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath -- The mountains where Cithaeron is / Amelia Moseley -- Wood / Alice Munro -- Presque Isle / Joyce Carol Oates -- Shawl / Cynthia Quick -- St. Anthony chorale / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Wissler remembers / Richard Stern -- Ice / Elizabeth Tallent -- Still of some use / John Updike -- Change / Larry Woiwode.
0395312590
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1981