The best American short stories, 2005 / 
 American short stories, 2005. 
selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Michael Chabon with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Michael Chabon. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  c2005. 
 - xvii, 411 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Best American series. .
<br/><br/>Introduction / Michael Chabon -- The smile on happy chang's face / Tom Perrotta -- Until Gwen / Dennis Lehane -- A taste of dust / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Old friends / Thomas McGuane -- Eight pieces for the left hand / J. Robert Lennon -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- First four measures / Nathaniel Bellows -- The scheme of things / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Silence / Alice Munro -- Death defier / Tom Bissell -- The girls / Joy Williams -- Anda's game / Cory Doctorow -- Simple exercises for the beginning student / Alix Ohlin -- Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- The secret goldfish / David Means -- The cousins / Joyce Carol Oates -- Natasha / David Bezmozgis -- Hart and boot / Tim Pratt -- Justice shiva ram murthy / Rishi Reddi -- Bohemians / George Saunders. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618423494 0618427058 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.<br/>American fiction--21st century.<br/>Canadian fiction--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.0108