In Country is Bobbie Ann Mason's 1985 novel that chronicles the struggle of Samantha Hughes to understand her dead father in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Bobbie Ann Mason's 1989 collection of short stories, Love Life, offers readers another chance to meet the characters that comprise Mason's world.

The American Story: Short Stories from the Rea Award (1993), edited by Michael Rea, presents a superb selection of stories by such authors as Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Charles Baxter, and Grace Paley.

New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties is a collection of stories by contemporary women writers such as Cynthia Ozick, Toni Cade Bambara, Anne Tyler, Fay Weldon, and Anne Beattie.

Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories(1988) is a collection of stories from one of the important short story writers of the...