TY - BOOK AU - Calisher,Hortense AU - Ravenel,Shannon TI - The Best American short stories, 1981: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395312590 AV - PS643 .B47 1981 PY - 1981/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - The idea of Switzerland / Walter Abish -- Small island republics / Max Apple -- Winter: 1978 / Ann Beattie -- A working day / Robert Coover -- The moth and the primrose / Vincent G. Dethier -- The winter father / Andre Dubus -- The assembly / Mavis Gallant -- The bookseller / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The future / Joseph McElroy -- Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath -- The mountains where Cithaeron is / Amelia Moseley -- Wood / Alice Munro -- Presque Isle / Joyce Carol Oates -- Shawl / Cynthia Quick -- St. Anthony chorale / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Wissler remembers / Richard Stern -- Ice / Elizabeth Tallent -- Still of some use / John Updike -- Change / Larry Woiwode ER -