Contributor
Moffett, James.
Edition Statement:Rev. ed.
Imprint:New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Mentor, 1995.
Description604 p. ; 18 cm.
Note:A telephone call / Dorothy Parker. - I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen.- Straight pool / John O'Hara. - The lady's maid / Katherine Mansfield. - ...& answers / Joyce Carol Oates. - Inter-office / Rosellen Brown. - A bundle of letters / Henry James. - A wilderness station / Alice Munro. - Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General / Ambrose Bierce. - The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. - The night watchman's occurrence book / V.S. Naipaul. - Amahl and the night visitors / Lorrie Moore. - The somebody / Danny Santiago. - My side of the matter / Truman Capote. - My sister's marriage / Cynthia Marshall Rich. - Why, you reckon? / Langston Hughes. - A&P / John Updike. - Distance / Grace Paley. - Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods / Toni Cade Bambara. - The circuit / Francisco Jiménez. - First confession / Frank O'Connor. - A coupla scalped Indians / Ralph Ellison. - Birthday / David Wong Louie. - The passing / Durango Mendoza. - The voice from the wall / Amy Tan. - Country / Jayne Anne Phillips. - Scales / Louise Erdrich. - The bridle / Raymond Carver. - The eggs of the world / Toshio Mori. - The five-forty-eight / John Cheever. - The stone boy / Gina Berriault. - Doby's gone / Ann Petry. - Act of faith / Irwin Shaw. - Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin. - Sinking house / T. Coraghessan Boyle. - The only rose / Sarah Orne Jewett. - Strong Horse tea / Alice Walker. - Uglypuss / Margaret Atwood. - Fever flower / Shirley Ann Grau. - The suicides of Private Greaves / James Moffett. - Inez / Merle Hodge. - A new window display / Nicholasa Mohr. - The lottery / Shirley Jackson. - Powerhouse / Eudora Welty.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 603).
