The Best American Short Stories 1987
1991 short story collection
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The Best American Short Stories 1987, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by guest editor Ann Beattie with Shannon Ravenel.[1][2][3]
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| Editor | Shannon Ravenel and Ann Beattie |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published | 1987 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 334 |
| ISBN | 0395413419 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1986 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1988 |
Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Susan Sontag | "The Way We Live Now" | The New Yorker |
| John Updike | "The Afterlife" | The New Yorker |
| Craig Nova | "The Prince" | Esquire |
| Elizabeth Tallent | "Favor" | The New Yorker |
| Mavis Gallant | "Kingdom Come" | The New Yorker |
| Sue Miller | "The Lover of Women" | Mademoiselle |
| Madison Smartt Bell | "The Lie Detector" | The Crescent Review |
| Alice Munro | "Circle of Prayer" | The Paris Review |
| Lee K. Abbott | "Dreams of Distant Lives" | Harper's |
| Ralph Lombreglia | "Men under Water" | The Atlantic |
| Raymond Carver | "Boxes" | The New Yorker |
| Bharati Mukherjee | "The Tenant" | The Literary Review |
| Joy Williams | "The Blue Men" | Esquire |
| Kent Haruf | "Private Debts / Public Holdings" | Grand Street |
| Charles Baxter | "How I Found My Brother" | Indiana Review |
| Tobias Wolff | "The Other Miller" | The Atlantic |
| Robert Taylor, Jr. | "Lady of Spain" | The Hudson Review |
| Daniel Stern | "The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story" | The Ontario Review |
| Ron Carlson | "Milk" | The North American Review |
| Tim O'Brien | "The Things They Carried | Esquire |
