TY - BOOK AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, TI - Scenes from American life: contemporary short fiction SN - 0814907504 AV - PS648.S5 U1 - 813/.01 PY - 1973///] CY - New York PB - Vanguard Press KW - Short stories American KW - United States KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Fiction N1 - 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 ER -