The Playboy book of short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Alice K. Turner.
Contributors: Turner, Alice K.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
Subjects: Short stories, American.; American fiction -- 20th century.; United States -- Social life and customs. -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Playboy stories.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Playboy stories : the best of forty years of short fiction. New York : Dutton, 1994.
Table of contents: value: Black country / Charles Beaumont; value: All married women are bad, yes? / Herbert Gold; value: A flourish of strumpets / Richard Matheson; value: In a season of calm weather / Ray Bradbury; value: Just like the girl / James Jones; value: A fine son / Roald Dahl; value: A great voice stilled / Shirley Jackson; value: The killer in the TV set / Bruce Jay Friedman; value: Brother Endicott / James Thurber; value: Naked nude / Bernard Malamud; value: An actor's life for me / Philip Roth; value: Good blonde / Jack Kerouac; value: The manchild / James Baldwin; value: Where all things wise and fair descend / Irwin Shaw; value: The yellow room / John Cheever; value: I am dying, Egypt, dying / John Updike; value: Saul Bird says, relate! communicate! liberate! / Joyce Carol Oates; value: The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez; value: The dashing fellow / Vladimir Nabokov; value: The last carrousel / Nelson Algren; value: The conservationist / Nadine Gordimer; value: Brennbar's rant / John Irving; value: Asking for it / John Collier; value: Trial of the warlock / Norman Mailer; value: The other / Jorge Luis Borges; value: A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer; value: White lies / Paul Theroux; value: May I have some marmalade, please? / Sean O'Faolain; value: Anna / Andre Dubus; value: My mistress / Laurie Colwin; value: Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane; value: Julius Caesar and the werewolf / John Gardner; value: Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis; value: The middleman / Bharati Mukherjee; value: Yossarian survives / Joseph Heller; value: Modern love / T. Coraghessan Boyle; value: Lucky Pierre in the doctor's office / Robert Coover; value: Unlocking the air / Ursula K. Le Guin; value: Kwoon / Charles Johnson; value: The second bakery attack / Haruki Murakami; value: How it ended / Jay McInerney.