num_pages: 363
description: A collection of short stories selected from national magazines and small literary journals features the work of authors such as Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, Rick Bass, Mary Gordon, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lynn Sharon Schwartz.
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 1996
titlecomplete: The Best American Short Stories 1996
genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt