TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Alice AU - Kenison,Katrina TI - The best American short stories, 1991: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395544106 AV - PS643 .B47 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - Contributors notes: p. [395]-409; "100 other distinguished stories of 1990": p. [410]-413; "Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [414]-426; Legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- The trip back / Robert Olen Butler -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon -- Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The body shop / Elizabeth Graver -- Houdini / Siri Hustvedt -- Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Friend of my youth / Alice Munro -- American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dog stories / Francine Prose -- A Sandstone farmhouse / John Updike ER -