The best American short stories 1983
By: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Anne Tyler with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Anne Tyler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780395344286; 9780395348444
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hard to be good  -- Bill Barich; title: Dignity of life  -- Carol Bly; title: Change of season  -- James Bond; title: Where I'm calling from  -- Raymond Carver; title: "Ollie, oh..."  -- Carolyn Chute; title: My mistress  -- Laurie Colwin; title: Count and the princess  -- Joseph Epstein; title: Scales  -- Louise Erdrich; title: Professor's houses ;  Sur  -- Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Graveyard day  -- Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Victrola  -- Wright Morris; title: Reunion  -- Julie Schumacher; title: Best Quality Glass Company, New York  -- Sharon Sheehe Stark; title: Colorado  -- Robert Taylor, Jr.; title: Starlight  -- Marian Thurm; title: Deaths of distant friends  -- John Updike; title: Reunion  -- Guy Vanderhaeghe; title: Beebee  -- Diane Vreuls; title: Firstborn -- Larry Woiwode.