Lust, violence, sin, magic
Subtitle: sixty years of Esquire fiction
By: edited by Rust Hills, Will Blythe, and Erika Mansourian ; introduction by Terry McDonell.
Contributors: Hills, L. Rust.; Blythe, Will.; Mansourian, Erika.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century.; Short stories, American.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Other titles: Esquire (New York, N.Y.)
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Terry McDonell
pagenum: xi; title: Lust; title: Erskine Caldwell: August Afternoon (Autumn 1933)
pagenum: 3; title: Irwin Shaw: The Eighty-Yard Run (January 1941)
pagenum: 21; title: Truman Capote: Among the Paths to Eden (July 1960)
pagenum: 24; title: Philip Roth: Very Happy Poems (January 1962)
pagenum: 35; title: Joy Williams: The Lover (July 1973)
pagenum: 56; title: Jayne Anne Phillips: Bess (August 1984)
pagenum: 64; title: James Salter: American Express (February 1988)
pagenum: 75; title: Saul Bellow: Something to Remember Me By (July 1990)
pagenum: 93; title: Reynolds Price: Serious Need (November 1990)
pagenum: 119; title: Violence; title: Ernest Hemingway: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (August 1936)
pagenum: 127; title: John Steinbeck: A Snake of One's Own (February 1938)
pagenum: 148; title: Norman Mailer: The Language of Men (April 1953)
pagenum: 157; title: Leslie A Fiedler: Nude Croquet (September 1957)
pagenum: 166; title: Stanley Elkin: I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (September 1962)
pagenum: 196; title: Raymond Carver: Neighbors (June 1971)
pagenum: 220; title: Gail Godwin: A Sorrowful Woman (August 1971)
pagenum: 226; title: T. Coraghessan Boyle: Heart of a Champion (January 1975)
pagenum: 232; title: Herbert Wilner: The Quarterback Speaks to His God (October 1978)
pagenum: 239; title: Tobias Wolf: Soldier's Joy (October 1985)
pagenum: 259; title: Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried (August 1986)
pagenum: 277; title: Thomas McGuane: Flight (August 1986)
pagenum: 294; title: Sin; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Alcoholic Case (February 1937)
pagenum: 301; title: James Jones: Two Legs for the Two of Us (September 1951)
pagenum: 309; title: John Cheever: The Death of Justina (November 1960)
pagenum: 318; title: Flannery O'Connor: Parker's Back (April 1965)
pagenum: 328; title: Harold Brodkey: His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft (August 1975)
pagenum: 346; title: Richard Ford: Rock Springs (February 1982)
pagenum: 363; title: Denis Johnson: Steady Hands at Seattle General (March 1989)
pagenum: 382; title: John Updike: The Rumor (June 1991)
pagenum: 386; title: Vince Passaro: My Mother's Lover (July 1992)
pagenum: 397; title: Ethan Canin: Accountant (May 1993)
pagenum: 411; title: Magic; title: John Barth: The Remobilization of Jacob Horner (July 1958)
pagenum: 451; title: Bruce Jay Friedman: Black Angels (December 1964)
pagenum: 468; title: Barry Targan: Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (July 1966)
pagenum: 474; title: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles (January 1972)
pagenum: 499; title: William Kotzwinkle: Horse Badorties Goes Out (September 1973)
pagenum: 503; title: Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man (October 1973)
pagenum: 516; title: Barry Hannah: Return to Return (October 1975)
pagenum: 528; title: Don DeLillo: Human Moments in World War III (July 1983)
pagenum: 553; title: Louise Erdrich: Fleur (August 1986)
pagenum: 567; title: Mark Richard: Strays (July 1988)
pagenum: 580; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 587