num_pages: 558
description: Twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century, including Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Mary McCarthy and Ralph Ellison. Selected and introduced by Douglas and Sylvia Angus.
language: English
title: Contemporary American Short Stories
titlecomplete: Contemporary American Short Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Collections, Anthologies
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Fawcett Books