The Best American short stories, 1971 : and The Yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971. - xiv, 382 p. ; 22 cm.

With Che in New Hampshire / Russell Banks -- Dotson Gerber resurrected / Hal Bennett -- The widow, bereft / James Blake -- I take care of things / Jack Cady -- Barbed wire / Robert Canzoneri -- The chicken which became a rat / Albert Drake -- The dancing boy / William Eastlake -- Pain was my portion / Beth Harvor -- No trace / David Madden -- Diesel / Don Mitchell -- The decline and fall of Officer Fergerson / Marion Montgomery -- Magic / Wright Morris -- The gift bearer / Philip F. O'Connor -- Requa I / Tillie Olsen -- Shirt talk / Ivan Prashker -- In late youth / Norman Rush -- The somebody / Danny Santiago -- Xavier Fereira's unfinished book: chapter one / Jonathan Strong -- The Klausners / Leonard Tushnet -- Bloodflowers / W.D. Valgardson -- The suitor / L. Woiwode.

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American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.

PS643 / .B47 1971