The Best American short stories, 1978 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by Ted Solotaroff with Shannon Ravenel, with an introduction by Ted Solotaroff. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1978. 
 - 398 p. :  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Including the Yearbook of the American short story". 
<br/><br/>Skaters on wood / Leslie Epstein -- The translation / Joyce Carol Oates -- A good loser / Elizabeth Cullinan -- Verona: a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey -- The Schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin -- In the Miro district / Peter Taylor -- The blacktop champion of Ickey Honey / Robert T. Sorrells -- Main Street morning / Natalie L. M. Petesch -- Murphy Jones : Pearblossom California / Max Schott -- Psychopolis / Ian McEwan -- By the yellow lake / Peter Marsh -- The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The windmill man / Tim McCarthy -- Telling the bees / L. Hluchan Sintetos -- Bromeliads / Joy Williams -- Two scenes / Jane Bowles -- Decades / Gilbert Sorrentino -- In Miami, last winter /James Kaplan -- The return of service / Jonathan Baumbach -- Staus / Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395271045 
<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 1978