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The Best American Short Stories 1991 [Hardcover]
Alice Adams (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-1991/dp/0395544106/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312556717&sr=1-1
Contents
RICK BASS. The Legend of Pig-Eye 1
from The Paris Review
CHARLES BAXTER. The Disappeared 21
from The Michigan Quarterly Review
AMY BLOOM. Love Is Not a Pie 46
from Room of One's Own
KATE BRAVERMAN. Tall Talesfrom the Mekong Delta 64
from Story
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. The Trip Back 82
from The Southern Review
CHARLES D'AMBROSIO, JR. The Point 95
from The New Yorker
MILLICENT DILLON. Oil and Water 115
from Southwest Review
HARRIET DOERR. Another Short Day in La Luz 145
from The New Yorker
DEBORAH EISENBERG. The Custodian 158
from The New Yorker
MARY GORDON. Separation 184
from Antaeus
ELIZABETH GRAVER. The Body Shop 194
from The Southern Review
SIRI HUSTVEDT. Houdini 209
from Fiction
MIKHAIL IOSSEL. Bologoye 228
from Boulevard
DAVID jAUSS. Glossolalia 243
from Shenandoah
LEONARD MICHAELS. Viva la Tropicana 264
from ZYZZYVA
LORRIE MOORE. Willing 297
from The New Yorker
ALICE MUNRO. Friend of My Youth 314
from The New Yorker
JOYCE CAROL OATES. American, Abroad 335
from North American Review
FRANCINE PROSE. Dog Stories 356
from Special Report-Fiction
JOHN UPDIKE. A Sandstone Farmhouse 367
from The New Yorker
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The first sentence of the first story in this collection--"We used to go to bars, the really seedy ones, to find our fights"--lures the reader with its promise of a strange and unfamiliar world. The selection, by Rick Bass, does not disappoint, taking us on a tour of "backwoods nightspots" where an aspiring fighter trains for a career in the big city. Story after story--there are 20 in all--matches Bass's opening gambit, with a dazzling mix of telling details and poignant character portraits. There are Charles D'Ambrosio Jr.'s 13-year-old protagonist who must escort his mother's drunken friend to her home; the woman in Siri Hustvedt's tale who enters a hospital because of a months-old migraine and whose neighbor, an old woman, one day climbs in bed with her and begins kissing her passionately; the sullen teenager, created by David Jauss, whose father is fired for embezzling, then hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Ashamed, the son blurts out to a friend that his father died of a brain tumor; years later, a father himself, the son reflects, "I had always loved my father, though behind his back, without letting him know it. And in a way, behind my back, too." Adams wrote Second Chances.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Like others in the series, this volume is doubly delightful, thanks to extended "Contributors' Notes" that include commentary from each author in addition to the usual (and often numbingly similar) biographical data. In her note, Kate Braverman opines that writing is like hunting--most days you come back with nothing more than cold toes and an aching heart, and then every once in a while you bag something sizable. All the stories collected here seem big: big in scope, big in achievement. A character in Millicent Dillon's "Oil and Water" thinks about levels of maleness--friendly maleness, sexual maleness, violent maleness, and so on--and, in one way or another, each of these 20 stories plumbs the various levels of ordinary people's attitudes and experiences. Truly a bravura performance, this is for most libraries.
- David Kirby, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
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