TY - BOOK AU - Solotaroff,Ted AU - Ravenel,Shannon TI - The Best American short stories, 1978: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395271045 AV - PS643 .B47 1978 PY - 1978/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - "Including the Yearbook of the American short story"; 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 ER -