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The Best American short stories, 1999 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
Title:
The Best American short stories, 1999 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines
Author:
Tan, Amy.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The Hermit's Story / Rick Bass -- The Sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Díaz -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni -- Kansas / Stephen Dobyns -- The tumblers / Nathan Englander -- The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux -- The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy -- The 5:22 / George Harrar -- Islands / A. Hemon -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston -- In the kindergarten / Ha Jin -- Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits -- Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan -- Africans / Sheilia Kohler -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Real estate / Lorrie Moore -- Save the reaper / Alice Munro -- The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx -- The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer -- The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay -- The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough.
ISBN:
9780395926840
Format :
Book