TY - BOOK AU - Foley,Martha TI - The Best American short stories, 1955: and The Yearbook of the American short story AV - PS643 .B47 1955 PY - 1955/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, American KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - A matter of price / Robert O. Bowen -- The excursionists / Nancy Cardozo -- Bachelor of Arts / Nancy G. Chaikin -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell, Jr. -- The decline and fall of Augie Sheean / Joe Coogan -- The day of the equinox / Daniel Curley -- Little Joe / William Eastlake -- Brother Quintillian and Dick the chemist / George P. Elliott -- The hundredth centennial / Mac Hyman -- The resting place / Oliver la Farge -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Dead center / Judith Merril -- Portrait of my son as a young man / Elizabeth H. Middleton -- The professor and the poet / Marvin Mudrick -- Yore / Howard Nemerov -- A circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- Tip on a dead jockey / Irwin Shaw -- Maiden in a tower / Wallace Stegner -- Bird man / David Stuart -- Herman's day / Harvey Swados -- I got a friend / Mark van Doren -- The scale room / George Vukelich -- Going to Naples / Eudora Welty ER -