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Title:
The best American short stories of the century
Author:
Updike, John.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xxiv, 775 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Language:
English
Contents:
Zelig / Little selves / A jury of her peers / Other woman / Golden honeymoon / Blood-burning moon / Killers / Double birthday / Wild plums / Theft / That evening sun go down / Here we are / Crazy Sunday / My dead brother comes to America / Resurrection of a life / Christmas gift / Bright and morning star / Hitch-hikers / Peach stone / "That in Aleppo once..." / Interior castle / Miami-New York / Second tree from the corner / Farmer's children / Death of a favorite / Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Country husband / Greenleaf / Ledge / Defender of the faith / Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / German refugee / Where are you going, where have you been? / Rotifer / Gold Coast / Key / A city of churches / How to win / Roses, rhododendron / Verona : a young woman speaks / A silver dish / Gesturing / Shawl / Where I'm calling from / Janus / Way we live now / Things they carried / Meneseteung / You're ugly, too / I want to live ! / In the gloaming / Proper library / Birthmates / Soon / Half-skinned steer
ISBN:
9780395843680
Format :
Book