The Best American Short Stories 1997
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| Editor | Katrina Kenison and E. Annie Proulx |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published | 1997 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0395798655 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1996 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1998 |
The Best American Short Stories 1997, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor E. Annie Proulx.[1][2] This was the first and only year that the stories were formally grouped by category, rather than alphabetically.
Short stories included
[edit]Category: Manners and Right Behavior
[edit]| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ha Jin | "Saboteur" | The Antioch Review |
| Robert Stone | "Under the Pitons" | Esquire |
| Carolyn Cooke | "Bob Darling" | The Paris Review |
| Jonathan Franzen | "Chez Lambert" | The Paris Review |
Category: Identifying the Stranger
[edit]| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Michelle Cliff | "Transactions" | TriQuarterly |
| Richard Bausch | "Nobody in Hollywood" | The New Yorker |
| Cynthia Ozick | "Save My Child!" | The New Yorker |
| Karen E. Bender | "Eternal Love" | Granta |
| Leonard Michaels | "A Girl with a Monkey" | Partisan Review |
| Lydia Davis | "St. Martin" | Grand Street |
Category: Perceived Social Values
[edit]| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Junot Diaz | "Fiesta, 1980" | Story |
| Donald Hall | "From Willow Temple" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle | "Killing Babies" | The New Yorker |
| Clyde Edgerton | "Send Me to the Electric Chair" | The Oxford American |
| June Spence | "Missing Women" | The Southern Review |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | "Air Mail" | The Yale Review |
| Pam Durban | "Soon" | The Southern Review |
Category: Rites of Passage
[edit]| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Byers | "Shipmates Down Under" | American Short Fiction |
| Tobias Wolff | "Powder" | Fish Stories |
| Alyson Hagy | "Search Bay" | Ploughshares |
| Tim Gautreaux | "Little Frogs in a Ditch" | Gentlemen's Quarterly |
References
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