The scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction :  50 north american stories since 1970 / 
edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone; with an introd. by Rosellen  Brown. 
 - Revised and updated 2nd  ed. 
 - New York :  A Touchstone Book,  2007. 
 - xv, 652 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Permissions and index. 
<br/><br/>With stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien , and Z Z Packer. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Sarah Cole: a type of love story /  The school /  The hermit's story /  The fireman's wife /  The disappeared /  Silver water /  Caviar /  The ceiling /  Jealous husband returns in form of parrot /  Never marry a Mexican /  Relief /  After Rosa Parks /  Nilda /  The caretaker /  We didn't /  Twilight of the superheroes /  Communist /  Tiny, smiling Daddy /  Winners on the pass line /  Wickedness /  A real doll /  How far she went /  Car crash while hitchhiking /  Marie /  The pugilist at rest /  Girl /  A temporary matter /  Territory /  Stone animals /  The kind of light that shines on Texas /  The secret goldfish /  Lust /  Boys /  The management of grief /  Female trouble /  The translation /  The things they carried /  Orientation /  Pilgrims /  Brownies /  The half-skinned steer /  The cavemen in the hedges /  Sea oak /  My shape /  Tony's story /  The way we live now /  Two kinds /  Xmas, Jamaica Plain /  Nineteen fifty-five /  The rest of her life /  Rosellen Brown --  Russell Banks --  Donald Barthelme --  Rick Bass --  Richard Bausch --  Charles Baxter --  Amy Bloom --  T. C. Boyle --  Kevin Brockmeier --  Robert Olen Butler --  Sandra Cisneros --  Peter Ho Davies --  Janet Desaulniers --  Junot Dâiaz --  Anthony Doerr --  Stuart Dybek --  Deborah Eisenberg --  Richard Ford --  Mary Gaitskill --  Dagoberto Gilb --  Ron Hansen --  A. M. Holmes --  Mary Hood --  Denis Johnson --  Edward P. Jones --  Thom Jones --  Jamaica Kincaid --  Jhumpa Lahiri --  David Leavitt --  Kelly Link --  Reginald McKnight --  David Means --  Susan Minot --  Rick Moody --  Bharati Mukherjee --  Antonya Nelson --  Joyce Carol Oates --  Tim O'Brien --  Daniel Orozco --  Julie Orringer --  ZZ Packer --  E. Anne Proulx --  Stacey Richter --  George Saunders --  Joan Silber --  Leslie Marmon Silko --  Susan Sontag --  Amy Tan --  Melanie Rae Thon --  Alice Walker --  Steve Yarbrough. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416532279 1416532277 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Cuentos americanos <br/>Short stories, Canadian.<br/>Cuentos canadienses<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.<br/>American fiction--21st century.<br/>Canadian fiction--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.<br/>Canada--Social life and customs--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 648  / S434 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.0108054