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The best American short stories of the century, John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike

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The best American short stories of the century, John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike
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eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
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The best American short stories of the century
Oclc number
65743140964002
Responsibility statement
John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike
Table Of Contents
Benjamin Rosenblatt / Zelig -- Mary Lerner / Little selves -- Susan Glaspell / A jury of her peers -- Sherwood Anderson / The other woman -- Ring Lardner / The Golden honeymoon -- Jean Toomer / Blood-burning -- Ernest Hemingway / The killers -- Willa Cather / Double birthday -- Grace stone coates / Wild plums -- Katherine Anne Porter / Theft -- William Faulkner / That evening sun go down -- Dorothy Parker / Here we are -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Crazy Sunday -- Alexander Godin / My dead brother comes to America -- William Saroyan / Resurrection of a life --Robert Penn Warren / Christmas gift -- Richard Wright / Bright and morning star -- Eudora Welty / The hitch-hikers -- Paul Horgan / The peach stone -- Vladimir Nabokov / "That in Aleppo once" -- Jean Stafford / The interior castle -- Martha Gellhorn / Miami-New York -- E.B. White / The second tree from the corner -- Elizabeth Bishop / The farmer's children -- J.F. Powers / Death of a favorite -- Tennessee Williams / The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin -- John Cheever / The country husband -- Flannery O'Connor / Greenleaf -- Lawrence Sargent Hall / The ledge -- Philip Roth / Defender of the faith -- Stanley Elkin / Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers -- Bernard Malamud / The german refugee -- Joyce Carol Oates / Where are you going, where have you been? --Mary Ladd Gavell / The rotifer -- James Alan McPherson / Gold coast -- Isaac Bashevis Singer / The key -- Donald Barthelme / A city of churches -- Rosellen Brown / How to win -- Alice Adams / Roses, rhododendron -- Harold Brodkey / Verona: a young woman speaks -- Saul Bellow / A silver dish -- John Updike / Gesturing -- Cynthia Ozick / The shawl -- Raymond Carver / Where I'm calling from -- Ann Beattie / Janus -- Susan Sontag / The way we live now -- Tim O'Brien / The things they carried -- Alice Munro / Meneseteung -- Lorrie Moore / You're ugly, too -- Thom Jones / I want to live! -- Alice Elliott Dark / In the gloaming -- Carolyn Ferrell / Proper library -- Gish Jen. / Birthmates -- Pam Durban / Soon -- Annie Proulx / The half-skinned steer
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