TY - BOOK AU - Oates, Joyce Carol AU - Ravenel, Shannon TI - The Best American short stories, 1979 : : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395277698 PY - 1979/// CY - Boston : PB - Houghton Mifflin, KW - ამერიკული პროზა N1 - Includes the Yearbook of the American short story; A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- An exile in the East / Flannery O'Connor -- Home and native land / Seán Virgo -- A short walk into afternoon / Kaatje Hurlbut -- Shadrach / William Styron -- The wedding week / Rosellen Brown -- A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The quail / Rolf Yngve -- Some Manhattan in New England / Peter LaSalle -- Plaisir d'amour / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Falling off the scaffold / Lyn Coffin -- Spelling / Alice Munro -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin -- Living alone / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- The middle place / Mary Hedin -- The quarterback speaks to his God / Herbert Wilner -- Trip in a summer dress / Annette Sanford -- The eye / Paul Bowles -- Paper covers rock / Jean Thompson -- The missing person / Maxine Kumin -- Finisterre / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- A lingering death / Silvia Tennenbaum -- Home is the hero / Bernard Malamud -- The new music / Donald Barthelme -- Something that happened / Jayne Anne Phillips ER -