Contents

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The Best American Short Stories 1978 ed. Ted Solotaroff & Shannon Ravenel

xiii • Introduction • Ted Solotaroff

1 • Skaters on Wood • Leslie Epstein Esquire, 1977

26 • Translation • Joyce Carol Oates TriQuarterly, 1977

46 • A Good Loser • Elizabeth Cullinan New Yorker, 1977

65 • Verona: A Young Woman Speaks • Harold Brodkey Esquire Jul ’77

72 • The Schreuderspitze • Mark Helprin New Yorker Jan 10 ’77

98 • In the Miro District • Peter Taylor New Yorker, 1977

136 • The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey • Robert T. Sorrells American Review Nov ’77

163 • Main Street Morning • Natalie L. M. Petesch New Letters, 1977

177 • Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California • Max Schott Ascent, 1977

192 • Psychopolis • Ian McEwan American Review, 1977

212 • By the Yellow Lake • Peter Marsh New Yorker, 1977

223 • The Conventional Wisdom • Stanley Elkin American Review Nov ’77

248 • Redemption • John Gardner Atlantic Monthly, 1977

262 • Rough Strife • Lynne Sharon Schwartz The Ontario Review Fll-Win ’77

282 • The Windmill Man • Tim McCarthy The Colorado Quarterly, 1977

292 • Telling the Bees • L. Hluchan Sintetos Prairie Schooner, 1977

303 • Bromeliads • Joy Williams The Cornell Review, 1977

310 • Two Scenes • Jane Bowles Antæus, 1977

316 • Decades • Gilbert Sorrentino Esquire, 1977

329 • In Miami, Last Winter • James Kaplan Esquire, 1977

354 • The Return of Service • Jonathan Baumbach American Review Nov ’77

363 • Staus • Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel The Hudson Review Sum ’77