The Best American Short Stories 1971 cover

The Best American Short Stories 1971

by Martha Foley

The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- Title Author (Originally Published In) With Che In New Hampshire Russell Banks (New American Review) Dotson Gerber Resurrected Hal Bennett (Playboy) The Widow, Bereft James Blake (Esquire) I Take Care Of Things Jack Cady (The Yale Review) Barbed Wire Robert Canzoneri (The Southern Review) The Chicken Which Became A Rat Albert Drake (The Northwest Review) The Dancing Boy William Eastlake (Evergreen Review) Pain Was My Portion Beth Harvor (The Hudson Review) No Trace David Madden (The Southern Review) Diesel Don Mitchell (Shenandoah) The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson Marion Montgomery (The Georgia Review) Magic Wright Morris (The Southern Review) The Gift Bearer Philip F. O'Connor (The Southern Review) Requa I Tillie Olsen (The Iowa Review) Shirt Talk Ivan Prashker (Harper's Magazine) In Late Youth Norman Rush (Epoch) The Somebody Danny Santiago (Redbook) Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One Jonathan Strong (Triquarterly) The Klausners Leonard Tushnet (Prairie Schooner) Bloodflowers W. D. Valgardson (Tamarack Review) The Suitor L. Woiwode (Mccall's Magazine)

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