An edition of The Best American short stories, 1998 (1998)

The Best American short stories, 1998

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Cover of: The Best American short stories, 1998 by Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor
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An edition of The Best American short stories, 1998 (1998)

The Best American short stories, 1998

selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines

by

  • 2 Want to read

An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
315

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Canadian Short stories, American Short stories, Canadian fiction, American fiction, Short stories, american

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20th century
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Cover of: The Best American short stories, 1998
The Best American short stories, 1998: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
1998, Houghton Mifflin
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Table of Contents

Foreword --
Introduction -- Garrison Keillor
Appetites -- Kathryn Chetkovich -- The
Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue -- Poe Ballantine
Body Language -- Diane Schoemperlen
Chance -- Edith Pearlman
Cosmopolitan -- Akhil Sharma
Elvis has left the building -- Carol Anshaw
Every night for a thousand years -- Chris Adrian
Flower children -- Maxine Swann
Glory goes and gets some -- Emily Carter -- The
half-skinned steer -- Annie Proulx
Morphine -- Doran Larson
Mr. Sweetly Indecent -- Bliss Broyard
My father on the verge of disgrace -- John Updike
Penance -- Matthew Crain
People like that are the only people here -- Lorrie Moore
Tea at the house -- Meg Wolitzer
Unified front -- Antonya Nelson
Wayne in love -- Padgett Powell
Welding with children -- Tim Gautreaux
Would you know it wasn't love -- Hester Kaplan
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1997 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

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Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.01/08
Library of Congress
PS648.S5 B4 1998, PZ1 .B446235

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 315 p. ;
Number of pages
315

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OL24939524M
Internet Archive
bestamericanshor00keil_0
ISBN 10
0395875153, 0395875145
ISBN 13
9780395875155, 9780395875148
OCLC/WorldCat
40146950

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