The best American short stories of the century
By: John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.
Contributors: Updike, John.; Kenison, Katrina.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 835
Subjects: Short stories, American.; American fiction -- 20th century.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Table of contents: title: Zelig -- Benjamin Rosenblatt; title: Little selves -- Mary Lerner; title: Jury of her peers -- Susan Glaspell; title: Other woman -- Sherwood Anderson; title: Golden honeymoon -- Ring Lardner; title: Blood-burning moon -- Jean Toomer; title: Killers -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Resurrection of a life -- William Saroyan; title: Christmas gift -- Robert Penn Warren; title: Bright and morning star -- Richard Wright; title: Hitch-hikers -- Eudora Welty; title: Peach stone -- Paul Horgan; title: "That in Aleppo once..." -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: Interior castle -- Jean Stafford; title: Miami-New York -- Martha Gellhorn; title: Second tree from the corner -- E.B. White; title: Farmer's children -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Death of a favorite -- J.F. Powers; title: Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin -- Tennessee Williams; title: Country husband -- John Cheever; title: Greenleaf -- Flannery O'Connor; title: Ledge -- Lawrence Sargent Hall; title: Defender of the faith -- Philip Roth; title: Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers -- Stanley Elkin; title: German refugee -- Bernard Malamud; title: Where are you going, where have you been? -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Rotifer -- Mary Ladd Gavell; title: Gold Coast -- James Alan McPherson; title: Key -- Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Cty of churches -- Donald Barthelme; title: How to win -- Rosellen speaks / -- Harold Brodkey; title: Silver dish -- Saul Bellow; title: Gesturing -- John Updike; title: Shawl -- Cynthia Ozick; title: Where I'm calling from -- Raymond Carver; title: Janus -- Ann Beattie; title: Way we live now -- Susan Sontag; title: Things they carried -- Tim O'Brien; title: Meneseteung -- Alice Munro; title: You're ugly, too -- Lorrie Moore; title: I want to live ! -- Thom Jones; title: In the gloaming -- Alice Elliott Dark; title: Proper library -- Carolyn Ferrell; title: Birthmates -- Gish Jen; title: Soon -- Pam Durban; title: Half-skinned steer -- Annie Proulx.