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The Best American Short Stories 1972: & the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The Best American Short Stories 1972: & the Yearbook of the American Short Story

M.F. Beal
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The twenty-one short stories collected here offer a broad cross-section of current styles in American fiction and as broad a representation of the concerns of Americans in the early 70s.

Perhaps the most common of those concerns is that of individual isolation in the midst of a teeming and seething society. Stories like M. F. Beal's "Gold," Theodore Weesner's "Stealing Cars," and Jose Yglesias' "The Guns in the Closet" depict very contemporary -- and very different -- methods by which young America is attempting to beat back its sometimes overwhelming sense of isolation. Herbert Gold's "A Death on the East Side" and Joe Ashby Porter's "The Vacation" describe the efforts of an older generation from opposing societies and philosophies.

Other stories, like John L'Heureux's "Fox and Swan," prove that there is always new light to shed on old themes, while stories by old hands, like Robert Penn Warren's "Meet Me in the Green Glen," prove that the best writers keep seeing the world from new directions.

Martha Foley has this year, as always, made her selections from the pages of widely varying publications, from the venerable Atlantic Monthly to the newest hardcover bi-monthly Audience, from the slickest of the big national magazines to the smallest of the regional journals. In so doing, Miss Foley presents the short-story lover with clear evidence of the robust health of American fiction in spite of the recent decline and fall of some of its most valuable outlets. To judge by the quality of the stories Miss Foley has chose from New American Review, Epoch, Occident, and other magazines, short fiction of the highest quality is still flourishing.

Contents:
"Gold" by M.F. Beal
"The World War I Los Angeles Airplane" by Richard Brautigan
"Covenant" by Kelly Cherry
"A Death on the East Side" by Herbert Gold
"The Supremacy of the Hunza" by Joanne Greenberg
"The Breadman" by Mary Heath
"Drums Again" by Edward M. Holmes
"The Judge" by Mary Gray Hughes
"In Black and White" by Ann Jones
"Three Washington Stories" by Ward Just
"His Day Out" Roberta Kalechofsky
"The Further Adventures of Brunhild" by Rebecca Kavaler
"Fox and Swan" by John L'Heureux
"Intimacy" Ralph Maloney
"The Aesculapians" by Marvin Mandell
"The Dock-Witch" by Cynthia Ozick
"The Vacation" by Joe Ashby Porter
"Magic Apple" by Penelope Street
"Meet Me in the Green Glen" by Robert Penn Warren
"Stealing Cars" by Theodore Weesner
"The Guns in the Closet" by Jose Yglesias
Language
English
Pages
412
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Release
May 10, 1972
ISBN
0395139503
ISBN 13
9780395139509

The Best American Short Stories 1972: & the Yearbook of the American Short Story

M.F. Beal
4.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The twenty-one short stories collected here offer a broad cross-section of current styles in American fiction and as broad a representation of the concerns of Americans in the early 70s.

Perhaps the most common of those concerns is that of individual isolation in the midst of a teeming and seething society. Stories like M. F. Beal's "Gold," Theodore Weesner's "Stealing Cars," and Jose Yglesias' "The Guns in the Closet" depict very contemporary -- and very different -- methods by which young America is attempting to beat back its sometimes overwhelming sense of isolation. Herbert Gold's "A Death on the East Side" and Joe Ashby Porter's "The Vacation" describe the efforts of an older generation from opposing societies and philosophies.

Other stories, like John L'Heureux's "Fox and Swan," prove that there is always new light to shed on old themes, while stories by old hands, like Robert Penn Warren's "Meet Me in the Green Glen," prove that the best writers keep seeing the world from new directions.

Martha Foley has this year, as always, made her selections from the pages of widely varying publications, from the venerable Atlantic Monthly to the newest hardcover bi-monthly Audience, from the slickest of the big national magazines to the smallest of the regional journals. In so doing, Miss Foley presents the short-story lover with clear evidence of the robust health of American fiction in spite of the recent decline and fall of some of its most valuable outlets. To judge by the quality of the stories Miss Foley has chose from New American Review, Epoch, Occident, and other magazines, short fiction of the highest quality is still flourishing.

Contents:
"Gold" by M.F. Beal
"The World War I Los Angeles Airplane" by Richard Brautigan
"Covenant" by Kelly Cherry
"A Death on the East Side" by Herbert Gold
"The Supremacy of the Hunza" by Joanne Greenberg
"The Breadman" by Mary Heath
"Drums Again" by Edward M. Holmes
"The Judge" by Mary Gray Hughes
"In Black and White" by Ann Jones
"Three Washington Stories" by Ward Just
"His Day Out" Roberta Kalechofsky
"The Further Adventures of Brunhild" by Rebecca Kavaler
"Fox and Swan" by John L'Heureux
"Intimacy" Ralph Maloney
"The Aesculapians" by Marvin Mandell
"The Dock-Witch" by Cynthia Ozick
"The Vacation" by Joe Ashby Porter
"Magic Apple" by Penelope Street
"Meet Me in the Green Glen" by Robert Penn Warren
"Stealing Cars" by Theodore Weesner
"The Guns in the Closet" by Jose Yglesias
Language
English
Pages
412
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Release
May 10, 1972
ISBN
0395139503
ISBN 13
9780395139509

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