The best American short stories, 1994
xviii, 364 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction / Tobias Wolff -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Hammam / Carol Anshaw -- Salem / Robert Olen Butler -- Pipa's story / Lan Samantha Chang -- Where I work / Ann Cummins -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- The prophet from Jupiter / Tony Earley -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- The voyage out / John Rolfe Gardiner -- The mail lady / David Gates -- Nicodemus bluff / Barry Hannah -- Cold snap / Thom Jones -- The chasm / John Keeble -- Landscape and dream / Nancy Krusoe -- Fur / Laura Glen Louis -- Melungeons / Chris Offutt -- Mr. Sumarsono / Roxana Robinson -- Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard -- Things left undone / Christopher Tilghman -- From Shanghai / Jonathan Wilson -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1993 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. Responsibility: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Tobias Wolff with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.
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