Contents

The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)

xi Introduction - Joyce Carol Oates - introduction

1 - A Silver Dish - Saul Bellow - New Yorker Sep 25 ’78

28 - An Exile in the East - Flannery O’Connor - South Carolina Review Nov ’78

39 - Home and Native Land - Seán Virgo - Malahat Review, 1978

44 - A Short Walk into Afternoon - Kaatje Hurlbut- The Southwest Review, 1978

56 - Shadrach - William Styron - Esquire Nov 21 ’78

79 - The Wedding Week - Rosellen Brown - Boston University Journal, 1978

84 - A Party in Miami Beach - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Playboy Jun ’78

97 - The Quail - Rolf Yngve - Quarterly West, 1978

102 - Some Manhattan in New England - Peter LaSalle - Georgia Review, 1978

115- Plaisir d’Amour - Lynne Sharon Schwartz - The Ontario Review, 1978

131 - Falling Off the Scaffold - Lyn Coffin - Michigan Quarterly Review Win ’78

150 - Spelling - Alice Munro - Weekend Magazine, 1978

157 - Seasons - Ruth McLaughlin - California Quarterly, 1978

167 - Living Alone - Robley Wilson, Jr. - Fiction International, 1978

172 - The Middle Place - Mary Hedin - The Southwest Review, 1978

184 - The Quarterback Speaks to His God Herbert Wilner · Esquire, 1978

206 - Trip in a Summer Dress - Annette Sanford - Prairie Schooner, 1978

214 - The Eye - Paul Bowles - The Missouri Review, 1978

222 - Paper Covers Rock - Jean Thompson - Mademoiselle, 1978

234 - The Missing Person - Maxine Kumin - TriQuarterly, 1978

243 - Finisterre - Louis D. Rubin, Jr. - The Southern Review, 1978

270 - A Lingering Death - Silvia Tennenbaum - Massachusetts Review, 1978

284 - Home Is the Hero - Bernard Malamud - Atlantic Monthly, 1978

312 - The New Music - Donald Barthelme - New Yorker, 1978

324 - Something That Happened Jayne Anne Phillips Gallimaufry, 1978