The 50 north american stories since 1970 Williford, Lex 1954- editor Martone, Michael A. 1955- editor text nyu New York A Touchstone Book 2007 Revised and updated 2nd ed. monographic eng

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xv, 652 p. ; 24 cm. Introduction / Rosellen Brown -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch -- The disappeared / Charles Baxter -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- Caviar / T. C. Boyle -- The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros -- Relief / Peter Ho Davies -- After Rosa Parks / Janet Desaulniers -- Nilda / Junot Dâiaz -- The caretaker / Anthony Doerr -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- Twilight of the superheroes / Deborah Eisenberg -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill -- Winners on the pass line / Dagoberto Gilb -- Wickedness / Ron Hansen -- A real doll / A. M. Holmes -- How far she went / Mary Hood -- Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- Marie / Edward P. Jones -- The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Territory / David Leavitt -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The secret goldfish / David Means -- Lust / Susan Minot -- Boys / Rick Moody -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Female trouble / Antonya Nelson -- The translation / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Orientation / Daniel Orozco -- Pilgrims / Julie Orringer -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- The half-skinned steer / E. Anne Proulx -- The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- My shape / Joan Silber -- Tony's story / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough. edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone; with an introd. by Rosellen Brown. Permissions and index. With stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien , and Z Z Packer. n-us--- n-cn--- Short stories, American Cuentos americanos Short stories, Canadian Cuentos canadienses American fiction 20th century Canadian fiction 20th century American fiction 21st century Canadian fiction 21st century United States Social life and customs Fiction Canada Social life and customs Fiction PS 648 S434 2007 813/.0108054 9781416532279 1416532277 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007036319-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007036319-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007036319-s.html DLC 070904 20230410132701.0 spa