The Best American Short Stories of the 80s

by Shannon Ravenel (Editor)

Other authors: Russell Banks (Contributor), Donald Barthelme (Contributor), Charles Baxter (Contributor), Paul Bowles (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor) — 15 more, Robert Coover (Contributor), Mavis Gallant (Contributor), Charles Johnson (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Wright Morris (Contributor), Bharati Mukherjee (Contributor), Alice Munro (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Cynthia Ozick (Contributor), Susan Sontag (Contributor), Robert Stone (Contributor), Peter Taylor (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), Joy Williams (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Short Stories (1980s), Best American (1980s)

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"These 20 stories were selected by series editor Ravenel from those printed in ... 'The Best American Short Stories' ... The variety of styles and themes in this collection ably reflects the talents and versatility of the short story writers of our day." Libr J.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Ravenel, Shannon	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Banks, Russell	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Barthelme, Donald	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Baxter, Charles	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bowles, Paul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Carver, Raymond	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Coover, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gallant, Mavis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Johnson, Charles	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Morris, Wright	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mukherjee, Bharati	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Munro, Alice	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
O'Brien, Tim	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Oates, Joyce Carol	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ozick, Cynthia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sontag, Susan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stone, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Taylor, Peter	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Updike, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, Joy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Gryphon [short story] by Charles Baxter

Deaths of Distant Friends by John Updike

Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Russell Banks

The Things They Carried (short story) by Tim O'Brien

Nairobi - story by Joyce Carol Oates

Exchange Values by Charles Johnson

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The Emerald (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Donald Barthelme

In the Red Room (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Paul Bowles

Health (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Joy Williams

A Working Day (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Robert Coover

Fellow-Creatures [short story] by Wright Morris

The Old Forest (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Peter Taylor

A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic 1909-10 (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Way We Live Now [short story] by Susan Sontag

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1990 (anthology)

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