The Ploughshares reader : new fiction for the eighties /

In this first of a projected series of anthologies, each celebrating the best of one literary magazine, 33 stories have been selected from the first 15 years of Ploughshares, New England's literary quarterly. It includes stories by prize-winning authors such as Max Apple, Alan Broughton, Raymon...

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Other Authors: Henry, DeWitt (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wainscott, N.Y. : Pushcart Press, [1985]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / DeWitt Henry
  • A compassionate leave / Richard Yates
  • Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien
  • A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
  • Lily ; Duck season / T. Alan Broughton
  • Household / Susan Engberg
  • Davidson among the chosen / Philip Damon
  • Uncle Nathan / Jay Neugeboren
  • All sorts of impossible things / John McGahern
  • Works of the imagination / Gina Berriault
  • At St. Croix / Andre Dubus
  • El Paso / Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Ollie, oh ... / Carolyn Chute
  • Bunco / Marilyn Jean Conner
  • The intruders of sleepless nights / Pamela Painter
  • Bijou / Stuart Dybek
  • West / Maxine Kumin
  • The Legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf
  • Fathers / Robley Wilson, Jr.
  • The Pilot-Messenger / Eve Shelnutt
  • Minnie the Moocher's Hair / Jack Pulaksi
  • Winterblossom Garden / David Low
  • Offices of Instruction / Jocelyn Hausmann
  • Static Discharge / Lew McCreary
  • Age / Janet Desaulniers
  • White Boy / Ivy Goodman
  • Expensive Gifts / Sue Miller
  • Island / Edward P. Jones
  • Trespass / Sandra Scofield
  • The Eighth Day / Max Apple
  • The Carved Table / Mary Peterson
  • Moonlight / Richard Wertime
  • The Coggios / Sharyn Layfield.