The Best American short stories, 1959 : and The Yearbook of the American short story /
The Best American short stories, 1959 : and The Yearbook of the American short story /
edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett.
- xii, 402 pages ; 21 cm
Jawaharlal and the three cadavers / John Berry -- Winter term / Sallie Bingham -- Amid a place of stone / Frank Butler -- The bella lingua / John Cheever -- Getaway / Robert M. Coates -- The Iowan's curse / Charles G. Finney -- Mrs. Mean / William H. Gass -- A day in the life of the boss / Hugh Geeslin, Jr. -- Love and like / Herbert Gold -- In a tropical minor key / Frank Holwerda -- The last Mohican / Bernard Malamud -- A secret society / Howard Nemerov -- The guy in Ward 4 / Leo Rosten -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- A birthday present / Anne Sayre -- The man in the toolhouse / Harvey Swados -- Venus, Cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor -- A gift from the city / John Updike -- The buck in Trotevale's / Thomas Williams -- The window / Ethel Wilson.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1959
Jawaharlal and the three cadavers / John Berry -- Winter term / Sallie Bingham -- Amid a place of stone / Frank Butler -- The bella lingua / John Cheever -- Getaway / Robert M. Coates -- The Iowan's curse / Charles G. Finney -- Mrs. Mean / William H. Gass -- A day in the life of the boss / Hugh Geeslin, Jr. -- Love and like / Herbert Gold -- In a tropical minor key / Frank Holwerda -- The last Mohican / Bernard Malamud -- A secret society / Howard Nemerov -- The guy in Ward 4 / Leo Rosten -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- A birthday present / Anne Sayre -- The man in the toolhouse / Harvey Swados -- Venus, Cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor -- A gift from the city / John Updike -- The buck in Trotevale's / Thomas Williams -- The window / Ethel Wilson.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1959