The Best American Short Stories 1998
By: [edited] by Garrison Keillor with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Garrison Keillor
Series: The Best [American] Short Stories
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780395875155; 9780395875148
Subjects: Canadian Short stories; American Short stories; American fiction; Canadian fiction
Description: An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.
Table of contents: title: Foreword --; title: Introduction  -- Garrison Keillor; title: Appetites  -- Kathryn Chetkovich -- The; title: Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue  -- Poe Ballantine; title: Body Language  -- Diane Schoemperlen; title: Chance  -- Edith Pearlman; title: Cosmopolitan  -- Akhil Sharma; title: Elvis has left the building  -- Carol Anshaw; title: Every night for a thousand years  -- Chris Adrian; title: Flower children  -- Maxine Swann; title: Glory goes and gets some  -- Emily Carter -- The; title: half-skinned steer  -- Annie Proulx; title: Morphine  -- Doran Larson; title: Mr. Sweetly Indecent  -- Bliss Broyard; title: My father on the verge of disgrace  -- John Updike; title: Penance  -- Matthew Crain; title: People like that are the only people here  -- Lorrie Moore; title: Tea at the house  -- Meg Wolitzer; title: Unified front  -- Antonya Nelson; title: Wayne in love  -- Padgett Powell; title: Welding with children  -- Tim Gautreaux; title: Would you know it wasn't love  -- Hester Kaplan; title: Contributors' notes --; title: 100 other distinguished stories of 1997 --; title: Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.