00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862097608 Buklod 20170816165921.0 g||| | || || ta 170816s1999 nyu rb |000 1|eng d 0684857960 (iLib)UPBAG-00025059501 DLC BAG rda eng PS 648 S5 S37 1999 The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction fifty North American stories since 1970 Lex Williford and Michael Martone, editors. 50 North American stories since 1970. New York, NY Simon & Schuster, Inc. ©1999. 671 pages 24 cm "Scribner paperback fiction." Library copy lacks page 668. Includes bibliographical references (pages [668]-671) This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara -- Sarah Cole : a type of love story / Russell Banks -- Click / John Barth -- The school / Donald Barthelme -- Wild horses / Rick Bass -- The man who knew Belle Starr / Richard Bausch -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman -- A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler -- The year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin -- Errand / Raymond Carver -- Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Fiesta 1980 / Junot Diaz -- Pet milk / Stuart Dybek -- The prophet from Jupiter / Tony Earley -- Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich -- Rock Springs / Richard Ford -- The mail lady / David Gates -- Same place, same things / Tim Gautreaux -- Nebraska / Ron Hansen -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Emergency / Denis Johnson -- Marie / Edward P. Jones -- Cold snap / Thom Jones -- Doe season / David Michael Kaplan -- Patriotic / Janet Kauffman -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Territory / David Leavitt -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Brokeback Mountain / Annie Proulx -- Strays / Mark Richard -- Intensive care / Lee Smith -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- First, body / Melanie Rae Thon -- Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog / Stephanie Vaughn -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- Taking care / Joy Williams. Stories chosen by teachers of college writing-programs, such courses now taught in 800 universities. The stories range from Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a slice of life from the Vietnam War, to Amy Tan's Two Kinds, the efforts of a Chinese-American mother to turn her daughter into a prodigy. Short stories, American. Short stories, Canadian. American fiction 20th century. Canadian fiction 20th century. Williford, Lex 1954- editor. Martone, Michael editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 648 S5 S37 1999 Book