The best American short stories, 1991 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
The best American short stories, 1991 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
by Alice Adams with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Alice Adams.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
- xvii, 426 p. ; 22 cm.
Contributors notes: p. [395]-409. "100 other distinguished stories of 1990": p. [410]-413. "Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [414]-426.
Legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- The trip back / Robert Olen Butler -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon -- Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The body shop / Elizabeth Graver -- Houdini / Siri Hustvedt -- Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Friend of my youth / Alice Munro -- American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dog stories / Francine Prose -- A Sandstone farmhouse / John Updike.
0395544106
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1991
Contributors notes: p. [395]-409. "100 other distinguished stories of 1990": p. [410]-413. "Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [414]-426.
Legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- The trip back / Robert Olen Butler -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon -- Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The body shop / Elizabeth Graver -- Houdini / Siri Hustvedt -- Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Friend of my youth / Alice Munro -- American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dog stories / Francine Prose -- A Sandstone farmhouse / John Updike.
0395544106
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1991