The Best American short stories of the eighties

xvii, 393 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Old forest / Peter Taylor --
Emerald / Donald Barthelme --
Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
A working day / Robert Coover --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Exchange value / Charles Johnson --
Deaths of distant friends / John Updike --
Sur: a summary report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-10 / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Nairobi / Joyce Carol Oates --
In the red room / Paul Bowles --
Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks --
Fellow-creatures / Wright Morris --
Gryphon / Charles Baxter --
Health / Joy Williams --
Way we live now / Susan Sontag --
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
Dédé / Mavis Gallant --
Helping / Robert Stone --
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
Meneseteung / Alice Munro.
Responsibility: selected and with an introduction by Shannon Ravenel.