Scenes from American life; contemporary short fiction.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Short stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Table of contents: title: The bitter bread, by J. H. Ford.; title: Flight, by J. Updike.; title: The boat, by A. MacLeod.; title: The fancy woman, by P. Taylor.; title: Of cabbage and kings, by J. A. McPherson.; title: Mending wall, by W. Marsh.; title: The hunters, by H. Downey.; title: The siege, by S. Yurick.; title: The demonstrators, by E. Welty.; title: The third ocean, by H. Summers.; title: In the zoo, by J. Stafford.; title: Revelation, by F. O'Connor.; title: My son the murderer, by B. Malamud.; title: The singer, by D. Madden.; title: A dolphin the forest, a wild boar on the waves, by C. Newman.; title: Plot, by J. C. Oates.; title: The Dachau shoe. Make this simple test. Postcards from the Maginot Line, by W. S. Merwin.; title: A sorrowful woman, by G. Godwin.; title: The hat act, by R. Coover.; title: Autobiography, by J. Barth.