Prize stories of the seventies : from the O. Henry Awards / [print] selected and with an introduction by William Abrahams. - first edition. - Garden City, New York : Doubleday, (c)1981. - 404 pages ; 22 cm.

Selections from Prize stories, 1970-1979.

Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz Small sounds and tilting shadows The destruction of the Goetheanum Subpoena The dead Talking horse The jewels of the Cabots Brownstone Alternatives James Alan McPherson Ursupation (other people's stories) / Cynthia Ozick -- Are you a doctor? / Raymond Carver -- His son, in his arms, in light, aloft I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205 The Richard Nixon Freischutz rag Night march Separating Last courtesies The Kugelmass episode The schreuderspitze My father's jokes Rought strife A silver dish Leonard Michaels -- Judith Rascoe -- James Salter -- Donald Barthelme -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Bernard Malamud -- John Cheever -- Renata Adler -- Alice Adams -- The faithful -- Harold Brodkey -- John Sayles -- Guy Davenport -- Tim O'Brien -- John Updike -- Ella Leffland -- Woody Allen -- Mark Helprin -- Patricia Zelver -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Saul Bellow.



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American fiction--20th century.

PS648 PS648.A159.P759 1981