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Tables of Contents for The Best American Short Stories 1997
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xiii
4
E. Annie Proulx
Introduction
Manners and Right Behavior
3
64
HA JIN
Saboteur from The Antioch Review
3
11
ROBERT STONE
Under the Pitons from Esquire
14
26
CAROLYN COOKE
Bob Darling from The Paris Review
40
14
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Chez Lambert from The Paris Review
54
13
Identifying the Stranger
67
90
MICHELLE CLIFF
Transactions from TriQuarterly
67
12
RICHARD BAUSCH
Nobody in Hollywood from The New Yorker
79
13
CYNTHIA OZICK
Save My Child! from The New Yorker
92
24
KAREN E. BENDER
Eternal Love Eternal Love from Granta
116
17
LEONARD MICHAELS
A Girl with a Monkey from Partisan Review
133
10
LYDIA DAVIS
St. Martin from Grand Street
143
14
Perceived Social Values
157
116
JUNOT DIAZ
Fiesta, 1980 from Story
157
14
DONALD HALL
From Willow Temple from The Atlantic Monthly
171
23
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE
Killing Babies from The New Yorker
194
21
CLYDE EDGERTON
Send Me to the Electric Chair from The Oxford American
215
8
JUNE SPENCE
Missing Women from The Southern Review
223
8
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Air Mail from The Yale Review
231
19
PAM DURBAN
Soon from The Southern Review
250
23
Rites of Passage
273
76
MICHAEL BYERS
Shipmates Down Under from American Short Fiction
273
28
TOBIAS WOLFF
Powder from Fish Stories
301
4
ALYSON HAGY
Search Bay from Ploughshares
305
30
TIM GAUTREAUX
Little Frogs in a Ditch from Gentlemen's Quarterly
335
14
Contributors' Notes
349
13
100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1996
362
4
Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
366