num_pages: 352
description: Short stories by A. Sanford, Lyn Coffin, Mary Hedin, Rolf Yngve, Sean Virgo, Paul Bowles, Saul Bellow, Maxine Kumin, Jean Thompson, Louis D. Rubin, Peter Lasalle, Robley Wilson, Herbert Wilner, Isaac B. Singer, Alice Munro, Rosellen Brown, William Styron, Bernard Malamud, Kaatjie Hurlbut, Ruth McLaughlin, Shannon Ravenel, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Silvia Tennenbaum, Jayne Anne Philips, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.A silver dish / Saul Bellow --An exile in the East / Flannery O'Connor --Home and native land / Seán Virgo --A short walk into afternoon / Kaatje Hurlbut --Shadrach / William Styron --The wedding week / Rosellen Brown --A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer --The quail / Rolf Yngve --Some Manhattan in New England / Peter LaSalle --Plaisir d'amour / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Falling off the scaffold / Lyn Coffin --Spelling / Alice Munro --Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin --Living alone / Robley Wilson, Jr. --The middle place / Mary Hedin --The quarterback speaks to his God / Herbert Wilner --Trip in a summer dress / Annette Sanford --The eye / Paul Bowles --Paper covers rock / Jean Thompson --The missing person / Maxine Kumin --Finisterre / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. --A lingering death / Silvia Tennenbaum --Home is the hero / Bernard Malamud --The new music / Donald Barthelme --Something that happened / Jayne Anne Phillips
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 1979
titlecomplete: The Best American Short Stories 1979
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Houghton Mifflin