The Norton anthology of contemporary fiction / [selected by] R.V. Cassill.

Barcelona / Alice Adams -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- Rope fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Life-story / John Barth -- The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme -- The burning house / Ann Beattie -- Descent of man / T. Coraghessen Boyle -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- The baby sitter / Robert Coover -- Murphy's Xmas / Mark Costello -- A father's story / Andre Dubus -- Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich -- Roar lion roar / Irvin Faust -- Just like a tree / Ernest J. Gaines -- The poets / Eugene Garber -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- An evening performance / George Garrett -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass -- Horseman / Oakley Hall -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Ann Hempel -- Melinda falling / Jincy Kornhouser -- Follow the eagle / William Kotzwinkle -- The new Atlantis / Ursula K Le Guin -- No trace / David Madden -- Lust / Susan Minot -- The beggar maid / Alice Munro -- City of boys / Beth Nugent -- How I contemplated the world from Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- Emotion recollected in tranquility / Jonathan Penner -- Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The Chink and the Clock People / Tom Robbins -- Coach / Mary Robison -- No place to be on Christmas / Janet Beeler Shaw -- Learning to swim / Graham Swift -- Beyond thw pale / William Trevor -- The other / John Updike -- Going to Russia / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Taking care / Jay Williams -- In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff.