TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,John AU - Ravenel,Shannon TI - The Best American short stories, 1982: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395322073 AV - PS643 .B47 1982 PY - 1982/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Dancing ducks and talking anus / James Ferry -- The courtship of Widow Sobcek / Joanna Higgins -- Good rockin' tonight / William Hauptman -- Shelter the pilgrim / Fred Licht -- Coach / Mary Robison -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- K. 590 / Nicholson Baker -- The dolphin story / Joyce Renwick -- The continental heart / Lissa McLaughlin -- The cafe de Paris / Roberta Gupta -- The power of language is such that even a single word taken truly to heart can change everything / Alvin Greenberg -- The gift horse's mouth / R.E. Smith -- Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter -- Coming over / Edith Milton -- The girl who was no kin to the Marshalls / Anne Hobson Freeman -- Prize tomatoes / Anne F. Rosner -- Proud monster-sketches / Ian MacMillan -- Lamb says / Rosanne Coggeshall -- Theft / Joyce Carol Oates ER -