TY - BOOK AU - Foley,Martha TI - The Best American short stories, 1977: and the yearbook of the American short story SN - 0395257018 AV - PS643 .B47 1977 PY - 1977/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - The trouble with being food / Frederick Busch -- Tarzan meets the department head / Price Caldwell -- Falconer / John Cheever -- At peace / Ann Copeland -- Pleadings / John William Corrington -- Growing up in no time / Philip Damon -- The Steinway Quintet / Leslie Epstein -- The lover / Eugene K. Garber -- Look at a teacup / Patricia Hampl -- Rider / Baine Kerr -- A questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon / Jack Matthews -- A passion for history / Stephen Minot -- The woman who thought like a man / Charles Newman -- Gay / Joyce Carol Oates -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- The chink and the clock people / Tom Robbins -- A Fresno fable / William Saroyan -- Breed / John Sayles -- Your place is empty / Anne Tyler -- Anthropology: what is lost in rotation / William S. Wilson ER -