<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd">
  <titleInfo>
    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>best American short stories of the century</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kenison, Katrina.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Updike, John.</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">mau</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Boston</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Houghton Mifflin</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1999</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>xxiv, 775 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Little selves / Mary Lerner -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- ""That in Aleppo once..."" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn -- Second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop -- Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers -- Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams -- Country husband / John Cheever -- Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin -- German refugee / Bernard Malamud -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Cty of churches / Donald Barthelme -- How to win / Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Gesturing / John Updike -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- Way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- I want to live ! / Thom Jones -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- Birthmates / Gish Jen -- Soon / Pam Durban -- Half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.</note>
  <note>Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American fiction</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Short stories, American</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="isbn">0395843685</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">00268458</identifier>
  <recordInfo>
    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">000613</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20181127165101.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier>2404</recordIdentifier>
  </recordInfo>
</mods>
