Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Scenes from American life; contemporary short fiction. - New York, Vanguard Press [1973] - x, 271 p. 25 cm.

Ford, J. H. The bitter bread.--Updike, J. Flight.--MacLeod, A. The boat.--Taylor, P. The fancy woman.--McPherson, J. A. Of cabbages and kings.--Marsh, W. Mending wall.--Downey, H. The hunters.--Yurick, S. The siege.--Welty, E. The demonstrators.--Summers, H. The third ocean.--Stafford, J. In the zoo.--O'Connor, F. Revelation.--Malamud, B. My son the murderer.--Madden, D. The singer.--Oates, J. C. Plot.--Newman, C. A dolphin in the forest, a wild boar on the waves.--Merwin, W. S. The Dachau shoe. Make this simple test. Postcards from the Maginot Line.--Godwin, G. A sorrowful woman.--Coover, R. The hat act.--Barth, J. Autobiography: a self-recorded fiction.

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Short stories American


United States--Social life and customs--Fiction--20th century

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