The Best American Short Stories 1987

The Best American Short Stories 1987, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by guest editor Ann Beattie with Shannon Ravenel.[1]

The Best American Short Stories 1987
EditorShannon Ravenel and Ann Beattie
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Short Stories
Published1987
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages334
ISBN0395413419
Preceded byThe Best American Short Stories 1986 
Followed byThe Best American Short Stories 1988 
First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin)

Short stories included

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Author Story Source
Susan Sontag "The Way We Live Now" The New Yorker
John Updike "The Afterlife" The New Yorker
Craig Nova "The Prince" Esquire
Elizabeth Tallent "Favor" The New Yorker
Mavis Gallant "Kingdom Come" The New Yorker
Sue Miller "The Lover of Women" Mademoiselle
Madison Smartt Bell "The Lie Detector" The Crescent Review
Alice Munro "Circle of Prayer" The Paris Review
Lee K. Abbott "Dreams of Distant Lives" Harper's
Ralph Lombreglia "Men under Water" The Atlantic
Raymond Carver "Boxes" The New Yorker
Bharati Mukherjee "The Tenant" The Literary Review
Joy Williams "The Blue Men" Esquire
Kent Haruf "Private Debts / Public Holdings" Grand Street
Charles Baxter "How I Found My Brother" Indiana Review
Tobias Wolff "The Other Miller" The Atlantic
Robert Taylor, Jr. "Lady of Spain" The Hudson Review
Daniel Stern "The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story" The Ontario Review
Ron Carlson "Milk" The North American Review
Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried Esquire

References

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  1. ^ Beattie, Ann and Shannon Ravenel (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1987, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987.
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