American short story masterpieces / [electronic resource] edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks.

A Laurel book.

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Weekend / Ann Beattie -- The bystander / Gina Berriault -- The Amish farmer / Vance Bourjaily -- 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 / Richard Brautigan -- Verona : a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Talk of heroes / Carol Bly -- Fever / Raymond Carver -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- Willi / E.L. Doctorow -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- Rock springs / Richard Ford -- The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall --

(Cont'd) Water liars / Barry Hannah -- Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin -- Ile forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- The misfits / Arthur Miller -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley -- The heavenly animal / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Walking out / David Quammen -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Akhnilo / James Salter -- The Christian roommates / John Updike -- The wedding / Joy Williams -- The liar / Tobias Wolff.