The best American short stories, 1986
By: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Raymond Carver with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Raymond Carver
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780395383995; 9780395383988
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Notes: Biographical notes: p. [307]-309.

"Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [315]-325.

"100 other distinguished short stories of the year, 1985": p. [311]-314.
Table of contents: title: Publisher's note --; title: Introduction  -- Raymond Carver; title: Basil from her garden  -- Donald Barthelme; title: Gryphon  -- Charles Baxter; title: Janus  -- Ann Beattie -- The; title: convict  -- James Lee Burke; title: Star food  -- Ethan Canin; title: Gossip  -- Frank Conroy; title: Communist  -- Richard Ford; title: Bad company  -- Tess Gallagher; title: Today will be a quiet day  -- Amy Hempel; title: Doe season  -- David Michael Kaplan; title: Three thousand dollars  -- David Lipsky; title: Sportsmen  -- Thomas McGuane; title: All my relations  -- Christopher McIlroy; title: Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux  -- Alice Munro; title: Skin angels  -- Jessica Neely; title: Invisible life  -- Kent Nelson; title: Telling  -- Grace Paley; title: Lawns  -- Mona Simpson; title: Health  -- Joy Williams -- The; title: rich brother  -- Tobias Wolff; title: Biographical notes --; title: 100 other distinguished short stories of the year 1985 --; title: Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.