The American story : short stories from the Rea Award / edited by Michael M. Rea ; introduction by Charles McGrath ; selected by Ann Beattie ... [et al.]
Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. Each year writers and editors, chosen as juro...
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Hopewell, N.J. :
Ecco Press,
c1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Escapes / Joy Williams
- You must remember this / Robert Coover
- Victrola / Wright Morris
- The circular valley / Paul Bowles
- The happiest I've been / John Updike
- Killings / Abdre Dubus
- Friends / Grace Paley
- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
- What you hear from 'em / Peter Taylor
- Our story begins / Tobias Wolff
- Winterkill / Richard Ford
- Verona: a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey
- The cinema / James Salter
- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates
- A vintage thunderbird / Ann Beattie
- Snow / Charles Baxter
- No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty
- Consolation / Richard Bausch
- The balloon / Donald Barthelme
- The student's wife / Raymond Carver
- Something that happened / Jayne Anne Phillips.