TY - BOOK AU - Foley,Martha TI - The Best American short stories, 1956: and The Yearbook of the American short story AV - PS643 .B47 1956 PY - 1956/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - In the early winter / Roger Angell -- The snow owl / Morris Brown -- We're all guests / George R. Clay -- In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates -- The undertow / Wesley Ford Davis -- The devil on a hot afternoon / Ward Dorrance -- The hobo / Harris Downey -- The quiet chimneys / William Eastlake -- Is he dead? / George P. Elliott -- Free the canaries from the cages! / Arthur Granit -- How Levon Dai was surrendered to the Edemuses / Marjorie Anais Housepian -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac -- Creole love song / Nathaniel LaMar -- The first flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Twenty below, at the end of a lane / Ruth Branning Molloy -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- The machine / John Shepley -- Four Annas / Christine Weston -- Reginald Pomfret Skeleton / Samuel Yellen ER -