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The Best American Short Stories 1967 & The Yearbook of the American Short Story

The Best American Short Stories 1967 & The Yearbook of the American Short Story

MacDonald Harris
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The Best American Short Stories 1967 continues the tradition of a half-century celebrating one of the most difficult and subtle of literary forms. Martha Foley and David Burnett have brought together once again twenty stories written in this country in the past year, all of which are outstanding in their genre.

One of the predominant themes of this collection is the concept of search. Joyce Carol Oates, for instances shows us the frightening search for self of a teenager torn between yesterday's conscience, represented by her parents and older sister, and today's desires, represented by her peers. In Arthur Miller's "Search for a Future" an old man caught in the web of senility still reaches out to a future. "The Heroic Journey" by Lawrence Lee portrays man's hunger for stability through a little donkey's journey toward firm earth on which to plant his hooves. "The Apartment Hunter" by Brian Moore presents one man's unique search for that intangible, elusive necessity--human contact. Other stories deal with the problems of being someone, of having a particular identity: a Hindu boy who longs for America: a French priest on a Caribbean island who cannot break through the racial-religious barrier.

Among the other contributors to The Best American Short Stories 1967 are Kay Boyle, Berry Morgan, Henry Roth, Jesse Stuart, and Robert Travers, as well as writers whose names may be less familiar--Ethan Ayer, George Blake, Raymond Carver, H.E E. Francis, MacDonald Harris, Robert Hazel, Hugh Allyn Hunt, Donald Radcliffe, David Rubin, Carol Sturm, and William Wiser.


Contains the following stories:

"The Promise of Heat" Ethan Ayer
"A Place Not on the Map" George Blake
"The Wild Horses" Kay Boyle
"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" Raymond Carver
"One of the Boys" H.E. Francis
"Trepleff" MacDonald Harris
"White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" Robert Hazel
"Acme Rooms and Sweet Marjorie Russell" Hugh Allyn Hunt
"The Heroic Journey" Lawrence Lee
"Search for a Future" Arthur Miller
"The Apartment Hunter" Brian Moore
"Andrew" Berry Morgan
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates
"Song of the Simidor" Donald Radcliffe
"The Surveryor" Henry Roth
"Longing for America" David Rubin
"The Accident" Jesse Stuart
"The Kid Who Fractioned" Carol Sturm
"The Big Brown Trout" Robert Travers
"House of the Blues" William Wiser
Language
English
Pages
357
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1967

The Best American Short Stories 1967 & The Yearbook of the American Short Story

MacDonald Harris
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From the inside jacket:


The Best American Short Stories 1967 continues the tradition of a half-century celebrating one of the most difficult and subtle of literary forms. Martha Foley and David Burnett have brought together once again twenty stories written in this country in the past year, all of which are outstanding in their genre.

One of the predominant themes of this collection is the concept of search. Joyce Carol Oates, for instances shows us the frightening search for self of a teenager torn between yesterday's conscience, represented by her parents and older sister, and today's desires, represented by her peers. In Arthur Miller's "Search for a Future" an old man caught in the web of senility still reaches out to a future. "The Heroic Journey" by Lawrence Lee portrays man's hunger for stability through a little donkey's journey toward firm earth on which to plant his hooves. "The Apartment Hunter" by Brian Moore presents one man's unique search for that intangible, elusive necessity--human contact. Other stories deal with the problems of being someone, of having a particular identity: a Hindu boy who longs for America: a French priest on a Caribbean island who cannot break through the racial-religious barrier.

Among the other contributors to The Best American Short Stories 1967 are Kay Boyle, Berry Morgan, Henry Roth, Jesse Stuart, and Robert Travers, as well as writers whose names may be less familiar--Ethan Ayer, George Blake, Raymond Carver, H.E E. Francis, MacDonald Harris, Robert Hazel, Hugh Allyn Hunt, Donald Radcliffe, David Rubin, Carol Sturm, and William Wiser.


Contains the following stories:

"The Promise of Heat" Ethan Ayer
"A Place Not on the Map" George Blake
"The Wild Horses" Kay Boyle
"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" Raymond Carver
"One of the Boys" H.E. Francis
"Trepleff" MacDonald Harris
"White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" Robert Hazel
"Acme Rooms and Sweet Marjorie Russell" Hugh Allyn Hunt
"The Heroic Journey" Lawrence Lee
"Search for a Future" Arthur Miller
"The Apartment Hunter" Brian Moore
"Andrew" Berry Morgan
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates
"Song of the Simidor" Donald Radcliffe
"The Surveryor" Henry Roth
"Longing for America" David Rubin
"The Accident" Jesse Stuart
"The Kid Who Fractioned" Carol Sturm
"The Big Brown Trout" Robert Travers
"House of the Blues" William Wiser
Language
English
Pages
357
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1967

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