The best American short stories, 1984 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by John Updike with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by John Updike. 
 - xxii, 295 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>The final proof of fate and circumstance / Lee K. Abbott -- The naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell -- Unknown feathers / Dianne Benedict -- In the red room / Paul Bowles -- The cure / Mary Ward Brown -- Gent / Rick DeMarinis -- A father's story / Andre Dubus -- Lena / Mavis Gallant -- Inexorable progress / Mary Hood -- The artificial moonlight / Donald Justice -- Morrison's reaction / Stephen Kirk -- Thorofare / Susan Minot -- Glimpse into another country / Wright Morris -- Nairobi / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rosa / Cynthia Ozick -- The cold room / Lowry Pei -- Things to be thrown away / Jonathan Penner -- Bruns / Norman Rush -- Foreign shores / James Salter -- Caddie's Day / Jeanne Schinto. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395354137 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>84240781  
<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 1984