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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
835

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Table of Contents

Zelig -- Benjamin Rosenblatt
Little selves -- Mary Lerner
Jury of her peers -- Susan Glaspell
Other woman -- Sherwood Anderson
Golden honeymoon -- Ring Lardner
Blood-burning moon -- Jean Toomer
Killers -- Ernest Hemingway
Resurrection of a life -- William Saroyan
Christmas gift -- Robert Penn Warren
Bright and morning star -- Richard Wright
Hitch-hikers -- Eudora Welty
Peach stone -- Paul Horgan
"That in Aleppo once..." -- Vladimir Nabokov
Interior castle -- Jean Stafford
Miami-New York -- Martha Gellhorn
Second tree from the corner -- E.B. White
Farmer's children -- Elizabeth Bishop
Death of a favorite -- J.F. Powers
Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin -- Tennessee Williams
Country husband -- John Cheever
Greenleaf -- Flannery O'Connor
Ledge -- Lawrence Sargent Hall
Defender of the faith -- Philip Roth
Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers -- Stanley Elkin
German refugee -- Bernard Malamud
Where are you going, where have you been? -- Joyce Carol Oates
Rotifer -- Mary Ladd Gavell
Gold Coast -- James Alan McPherson
Key -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Cty of churches -- Donald Barthelme
How to win -- Rosellen speaks / -- Harold Brodkey
Silver dish -- Saul Bellow
Gesturing -- John Updike
Shawl -- Cynthia Ozick
Where I'm calling from -- Raymond Carver
Janus -- Ann Beattie
Way we live now -- Susan Sontag
Things they carried -- Tim O'Brien
Meneseteung -- Alice Munro
You're ugly, too -- Lorrie Moore
I want to live ! -- Thom Jones
In the gloaming -- Alice Elliott Dark
Proper library -- Carolyn Ferrell
Birthmates -- Gish Jen
Soon -- Pam Durban
Half-skinned steer -- Annie Proulx.

Edition Notes

Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.

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Boston
Genre
Fiction.

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Library of Congress
PS648.S5 B45 2000, PS648.S5B45 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 835 p. ;
Number of pages
835

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OL6806220M
Internet Archive
bestamericanshor00john
ISBN 10
0395843677, 0395843685
LCCN
00269492
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