The best American short stories, 1973 :  and the yearbook of the American short story / 
edited by Martha Foley. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  c1973. 
 - xvi, 312 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- The slightest distance / Henry Bromell -- The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever -- Cambridge in sinking! / John J. Clayton -- Old men dream dreams, young men see visions / John William Corrington -- Robot / Guy Davenport -- The death of Sun / William Eastlake -- The real meaning of the Faust legend / Alvin Greenberg -- In the words of / Julie Hayden -- The habits of the animals; the progress of the seasons / George V. Higgins -- Burns / Ward Just -- Going home / James S. Kenary -- The way we went / Wallace E. Knight -- The broken wings / Konstantinos Lardas -- The silver bullet / James Alan McPherson -- God's wrath / Bernard Malamud -- Silkie / Joyce Carol Oates -- Mothers / Sylvia Plath -- Come away, oh human child / Erik Sandberg-Diment -- Country of the painted freaks / David Shetzline -- Happy August the 10th / Tennessee Williams. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395171199 
<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 1973