Best of the South
Subtitle: from the second decade of New stories from the South
By: edited by Shannon Ravenel ; selected and introduced by Anne Tyler.
Contributors: Tyler, Anne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Short stories, American -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In Best of the South, Anne Tyler has selected her favorite stories from the last ten volumes of New Stories from the South, the annual anthology that has become the cornerstone of contemporary Southern fiction. Here are twenty stories by some of today's most original and talented writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Shannon Ravenel book."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anne Tyler; title: The host / Marcia Guthridge; title: The Happy Memories Club / Lee Smith; title: Ramone / Judy Troy; title: Gravity / Pam Durban; title: Memorial Day / Mark Richard; title: Talk radio / Scott Ely; title: Birdland / Michael Knight; title: Fla. boys / Heather Sellers; title: Those Deep Elm Brown's Ferry blues / William Gay; title: Sheep / Thomas H. McNeely; title: Debra's flap and snap / Clyde Edgerton; title: Jesus is sending you this message/ Jim Grimsley; title: Hunting country / Stephen Coyne; title: The unripe heart / Max Steele; title: Faith healer / Lucia Nevai; title: The faithful / Paul Prather; title: Second hand / Chris Offutt; title: Intervention / Jill McCorkle; title: Good witch, bad witch / Gregory Sanders; title: The boucherie / Stephanie Soileau; title: Appendix; title: New stories from the South, 1986-2005.