The American story
Subtitle: short stories from the Rea Award
By: edited by Michael M. Rea ; introduction by Charles McGrath ; selected by Ann Beattie ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780880013413
Subjects: American Short stories; Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. Each year writers and editors, chosen as jurors by Michael Rea, nominate writers of short fiction to be honored by the award.

In The American Story, Rea has turned again to acclaimed jurors such as Joy Williams and Stanley Elkin and asked them to select the best stories by the illustrious winners - Cynthia Ozick, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Bowles, Eudora Welty and Grace Paley - along with the best stories by prominent writers who have been nominated for the award - including Ann Beattie, Harold Brodkey, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, James Salter, and John Updike.

All told, this collection brings together the finest work by twenty-one of our foremost practitioners of contemporary short fiction.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Escapes  -- Joy Williams; title: You must remember this  -- Robert Coover; title: Victrola  -- Wright Morris -- The; title: circular valley  -- Paul Bowles -- The; title: happiest I've been  -- John Updike; title: Killings  -- Abdre Dubus; title: Friends  -- Grace Paley -- The; title: shawl  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: What you hear from 'em  -- Peter Taylor; title: Our story begins  -- Tobias Wolff; title: Winterkill  -- Richard Ford; title: Verona: a young woman speaks  -- Harold Brodkey -- The; title: cinema  -- James Salter; title: Heat  -- Joyce Carol Oates -- A; title: vintage thunderbird  -- Ann Beattie; title: Snow  -- Charles Baxter; title: No place for you, my love  -- Eudora Welty; title: Consolation  -- Richard Bausch -- The; title: balloon  -- Donald Barthelme -- The; title: student's wife  -- Raymond Carver; title: Something that happened -- Jayne Anne Phillips.