Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love | 
The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud | 
One Arm and Other Stories
by Tennessee Williams | 
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace | 
The Shell Collector
by Anthony Doerr | 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis Johnson | 
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley | 
Microscripts
by Robert Walser | 
The Great Frustration
by Seth Fried | 
Rock Springs
by Richard Ford |
In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him '??the great playwright of his generation'? (The New York Times). A boy watches a '??remedy man'? tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother'??s ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny'??s, only to be divided by the attentions of their favorite waitress. Peering unblinkingly into the chasms that separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and strangers, these powerful tales bear the unmistakable signature of an American master. From the Trade Paperback edition.