The Best American Short Stories 1981
By: by Hortense Calisher with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introd. by Hortense Calisher
Series: The Best [American] Short Stories
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780395312599
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: Idea of Switzerland  -- Walter Abish; title: Small island republics  -- Max Apple; title: Winter: 1978  -- Ann Beattie; title: Working day  -- Robert Coover; title: Moth and the primrose  -- Vincent G. Dethier; title: Winter father  -- Andre Dubus; title: Assembly  -- Mavis Gallant; title: Bookseller  -- Elizabeth Hardwick; title: Shiloh  -- Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Future  -- Joseph McElroy; title: Fogbound in Avalon  -- Elizabeth McGrath; title: Mountains where Cithaeron is  -- Amelia Moseley; title: Wood  -- Alice Munro; title: Presque Isle  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Shawl  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: St. Anthony chorale  -- Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; title: Wissler remembers  -- Richard Stern; title: Ice  -- Elizabeth Tallent; title: Still of some use  -- John Updike; title: Change -- Larry Woiwode.