American Short Story Masterpieces /
Edited and with an Introduction by Rymond Carver and Tom Jenks.
- New York : Laurel, 1987.
- 512 p.
Sonny's Blues / Weekend / The Bystander / The Amish Farmer / 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 / Verona : A Young Woman Speaks / Talk of Heroes / Fever / The Fisherman from Chihuahua / Midair / Willi / The Fat Girl / A Poetics for Bullies / Rock Springs / The Lover of Horses / Redemption / Dream Children / The Ledge / Water Liars / Letters from the Samantha / Ile Forest / The Magic Barrel / Shiloh / The Story of a Scar / Murderers / The Misfits / Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Used-Boy Raisers / The Heavenly Animal / Walking Out / The Conversion of the Jews / Akhnilo / The Christian Roommates / The Wedding / The Liar / James Baldwin. -- Ann Beattie. -- Gina Berriault. -- Vance Bourjaily. -- Richard Brautigan. -- Harold Brodkey. -- Carol Bly. -- Raymond Carver. -- Evan S. Connell. -- Frank Conroy. -- E. L. Doctorow. -- Andre Dubus. -- Stanley Elkin. -- Richard Ford. -- Tess Gallagher. -- John Gardner. -- Gail Godwin. -- Lawrence Sargent Hall. -- Barry Hannah. -- Mark Helprin. -- Ursula K. Le Guin. -- Bernard Malamud. -- Bobbie Ann Mason. -- James Alan McPherson. -- Leonard Michaels. -- Arthur Miller. -- Joyce Carol Oates. -- Flannery O'Connor. -- Grace Paley. -- Jayne Anne Phillips. -- David Quammen. -- Philip Roth. -- James Salter. -- John Updike. -- Joy Williams. -- Tobias Wolff.
This collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades.