The best American short stories, 1989 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /
by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
- xxiii, 341 p. ; 22 cm.
Fenstad's mother / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell -- The black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd -- Kubuku rides (This is it) / Larry Brown -- Ralph the duck / Frederick Busch -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- The flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis -- Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr -- The concert party / Mavis Gallant -- Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover -- Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy -- Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan -- Displacement / David Wong Louie -- The management of grief / Sharati Mukherjee -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips -- Strays / Mark Richard -- The boy on the train / Arthur Robinson -- The letter writer / M. T. Sharif.
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American fiction--20th century. Short stories, American. Canadian fiction--20th century. Short stories, Canadian.