The best American short stories, 1996
Subtitle: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
By: by John Edgar Wideman with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by John Edgar Wideman.
Contributors: Wideman, John Edgar.; Kenison, Katrina.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780395752906; 9780395752913
Subjects: Short stories, American.; American fiction -- 20th century.; Short stories, Canadian.; Canadian fiction -- 20th century.; Nouvelles canadiennes de langue anglaise -- 20e siècle.; Nouvelles américaines -- 20e siècle.
Table of contents: title: Foreword --; title: Introduction -- John Edgar Wideman; title: Complicities -- Alice Adams; title: Fires -- Rick Bass; title: Driving the heart -- Jason Brown; title: Jealous husband returns in form of parrot -- Robert Olen Butler; title: The eve of the Spirit Festival -- Lan Samantha Chang; title: Fitting ends -- Dan Chaon; title: The silver screen -- Peter Ho Davies; title: Ysrael -- Junot Diaz; title: Sleep -- Stephen Dixon; title: Paper lantern -- Stuart Dybek; title: The incredible appearing man -- Deborah Galyan; title: Intertextuality -- Mary Gordon; title: Past my future -- David Huddle; title: Bright winter -- Anna Keesey; title: In Roseau -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: Shades -- William Henry Lewis; title: A stand of fables -- William Lychack; title: Ghost girls -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Sculpture I -- Angela Patrinos; title: Some say the world -- Susan Perabo; title: The trip to Halawa Valley -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz; title: If you sing like that for me -- Akhil Sharma; title: All shall love me and despair -- Jean Thompson; title: Xmas, Jamaica Plain -- Melanie Rae Thon; title: Contributors' notes --; title: 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 --; title: Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories.