Editors' Choice III - Softcover

Murphy, George E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553343335 ISBN 13: 9780553343335

Publisher: Bantam, 1986

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From Publishers Weekly:

For readers without the time to page through the 18 magazines represented here, this anthology is an excellent selection of the year's short stories. Gail Galloway Adams describes a girl's crush on her charming brother-in-law, a bantamweight redneck with the "Inside Dope." In Mary Gordon's "The Dancing Party," a contemporary social roundelay is sketched with the jaunty rhythm and sad undertone of a Gershwin song. A young woman tries to make sense of her threatening, chaotic city in Amy Herrick's "In the Air, Over Our Heads." Tim O'Brien takes us to Vietnam for his elegiac litany of foot soldiers and "The Things They Carried." Also included: works by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Thomas McGuane, Sue Miller and Elizabeth Tallent.
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From Library Journal:

There are stories here from such unlikely bunkmates as Playboy and Ms. , Harper's and Seventeen , plus several small-press journals. The latter put the slicks to shame; the Ms. and Redbook entries seem written according to formula, for example, while the Tendril and Ploughshares stories are very good and the TriQuarterly one is pure magic. Apparently, mainstream fiction helps sell mouthwash while the small presses hawk quality literature. Then again, mainstream fiction is used here to sell small-press work; the reader who picks up this anthology for the Cosmopolitan story may read further. A good buy for smaller and newer libraries, though established collections could do better. David Kirby, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
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