Short story compilation
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Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1996 |
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Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1998 |
The Best American Short Stories 1997, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor E. Annie Proulx.[1][2] This was the first and only year that the stories were formally grouped by category, rather than alphabetically.
Short stories included
Category: Manners and Right Behavior
Author | Story | Source |
Ha Jin | "Saboteur" | The Antioch Review |
Robert Stone | "Under the Pitons" | Esquire |
Carolyn Cooke | "Bob Darling" | The Paris Review |
Jonathan Franzen | "Chez Lambert" | The Paris Review |
Category: Identifying the Stranger
Author | Story | Source |
Michelle Cliff | "Transactions" | TriQuarterly |
Richard Bausch | "Nobody in Hollywood" | The New Yorker |
Cynthia Ozick | "Save My Child!" | The New Yorker |
Karen E. Bender | "Eternal Love" | Granta |
Leonard Michaels | "A Girl with a Monkey" | Partisan Review |
Lydia Davis | "St. Martin" | Grand Street |
Category: Perceived Social Values
Category: Rites of Passage
References
- ^ Kennison, Katrina and Proulx, Annie (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1997, New York, 1997.
- ^ The Best in the Truest Sense of the World, Chicago Tribune, Dec 22, 1997
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