The best American short stories, 1996 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
by John Edgar Wideman with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by John Edgar Wideman. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  c1996. 
 - xx, 363 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Complicities / Alice Adams -- Fires / Rich Bass -- Driving the heart / Jason Brown -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Fitting ends / Dan Chaon -- The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies -- Ysrael / Junot Diaz -- Sleep / Stephen Dixon -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan -- Intertextuality / Mary Gordon -- Past my future / David Huddle -- Bright winter / Anna Keesey -- In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A stand of fables / William Lychack -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos -- Some say the world / Susan Perabo -- The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma -- All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395752914 
<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 1996