num_pages: 365
description: Short Stories by Ann Beattie, John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Louis D. Rubin, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Tallent, Hortense Calisher, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others.
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 1981
titlecomplete: The Best American Short Stories 1981
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Penguin Books