The Best American short stories, 1983 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by Anne Tyler with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Anne Tyler. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1983. 
 - xx, 332 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Hard to be good / Bill Barich -- The dignity of life / Carol Bly -- A change of season / James Bond -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- "Ollie, oh ..." / Carolyn Chute -- My mistress / Laurie Colwin -- The count and the princess / Joseph Epstein -- Scales / Louise Erdrich --The professor's houses / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Sur / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Graveyard day / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Victrola / Wright Morris -- Reunion / Julie Schumacher -- Best quality glass company, New York / Sharon Sheehe Stark -- Colorado / Robert Taylor, Jr. -- Starlight / Marian Thurm -- Deaths of distant friends / John Updike -- Reunion / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Beebee / Diane Vreuls -- Firstborn / Larry Woiwode. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>039534428X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>83010709 
<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 1983