The best American short stories, 1986 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by Raymond Carver with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Raymond Carver. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1986. 
 - xxii, 325 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Biographical notes: p. [307]-309. 
<br/><br/>Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- The convict / James Lee Burke -- Star food / Ethan Canin -- Gossip / Frank Conroy -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Bad company / Tess Gallagher -- Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel -- Doe season / David Michael Kaplan -- Three thousand dollars / David Lipsky -- Sportsmen / Thomas McGuane -- All my relations / Christopher McIlroy -- Monsieur les deux chapeaux / Alice Munro -- Skin angels / Jessica Neely -- Invisible life / Kent Nelson -- Telling / Grace Paley -- Lawns /Mona Simpson -- Health /Joy Williams -- The rich brother / Tobias Wolff. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395383994 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 1986