The Best American short stories, 1979 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by Joyce Carol Oates, with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introd. by Joyce Carol Oates. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1979. 
 - xxii, 352 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Including the Yearbook of the American short story". 
<br/><br/>A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- An exile in the east / Flannery O'Connor -- Home and native land / Sean Virgo -- A short walk into afternoon / Kaatje Hurlbut -- Shadrach / William Styron -- The wedding week / Rosellen Brown -- A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The quail / Rolf Yngve -- Some Manhattan in New England / Peter LaSalle -- Plaisir d'amour / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Falling off the scaffold /Lyn Coffin -- Spelling / Alice Munro -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin -- Living alone / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- The middle place / Mary Hedin -- The quarterback speaks to his god / Herbert Wilner -- Trip in a summer dress / Annette Sanford -- The eye / Paul Bowles -- Paper covers rock / Jean Thompson -- The missing person / Maxine Kumin -- Finisterre / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.  -- A lingering death / Silvia Tennenbaum -- Home is the hero / Bernard Malamud -- The new music / Donald Barthelme -- Something that happened / Jayne Anne Phillips. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395277698 
<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 1979