The Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American short stories
Title:
The Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American short stories
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini.
Publication Information:
Hanover, N.H. : Published for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College by University Press of New England, ©1987.
Physical Description:
vii, 331 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780874513929
9780874514018
Abstract:
22 short stories by Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, John Updike, and others.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330).
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Added Title Contained Works:
Good deal.
Pacific.
Fall of Texas.
Lure.
Things they carried.
Shawl.
Painters.
Additional Physical Form Available:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Gypsy moths / Ann Beattie -- Falling and ascending bodies: four passages / Harold Brodkey -- A good deal / Rosellen Brown -- Boxes / Raymond Carver -- At the Prado: a short story / Nicholas Delbanco -- Fireworks / Richard Ford -- Over the mountains / Gail Godwin -- Nebraska / Ron Hansen -- The Pacific / Mark Helprin -- Lawfully / Robert Houston -- Apache / David Huddle -- Trying to save Piggy Sneed / John Irving -- The fall of Texas / Joyce Johnson -- Willis Carr at Bleak House / David Madden -- The lure / Mary Morris -- Surf City / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Other lives / Francine Prose -- The painters / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Poker night / John Updike -- How poetry came into the world and why God doesn't write it / Nancy Willard -- Mother / Hilma Wolitzer.