The best American short stories, 1990 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Richard Ford with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Richard Ford. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990. - xxii, 374 p. ; 22 cm.

River of toys / Edward Allen -- The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch -- A kind of simple, happy grace / Richard Bausch -- Finding Natasha / Madison Smartt Bell -- The wizard / C.S. Godshalk -- The secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley -- How to talk to a hunter / Pam Houston -- Mr. Morning / Siri Hustvedt -- Car-crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland -- Eisenheim the illusionist / Steven Millhauser -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- Differently / Alice Munro -- Wigtime / Alice Munro -- Typical / Padgett Powell -- The reverse bug / Lore Segal -- Prowler / Elizabeth Tallent -- In a father's place / Christopher Tilghman -- Commuter marriage / Joan Wickersham -- The little winter / Joy Williams.

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

PS643 / .B47 1990