Points of view : an anthology of short stories / James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603).

A telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Straight pool / John O'Hara -- The lady's maid / Katherine Mansfield -- -- and answers / Joyce Carol Oates -- Inter-office / Rosellen Brown -- A bundle of letters / Henry James -- A wilderness station / Alice Munro -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General / Ambrose Bierce -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The night watchman's occurrence book / V.S. Naipaul -- Amahl and the night visitors / Lorrie Moore -- The somebody / Danny Santiago -- My side of the matter / Truman Capote -- My sister's marriage / Cynthia Marshall Rich -- Why, you reckon? / Langston Hughes -- A and P / John Updike -- Distance / Grace Paley -- Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods / Toni Cade Bambara -- The circuit / Francisco Jiménez -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- A coupla scalped Indians / Ralph Ellison -- Birthday / David Wong Louie -- The passing / Durango Mendoza -- The voice from the wall / Amy Tan -- Country / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Scales / Louise Erdrich -- The bridle / Raymond Carver -- The eggs of the world / Toshio Mori -- The five-forty-eight / John Cheever -- The stone boy / Gina Berriault -- Doby's gone / Ann Petry -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin -- Sinking house / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The only rose / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Strong horse tea / Alice Walker -- Uglypuss / Margaret Atwood -- Fever flower / Shirley Ann Grau -- The suicides of Private Greaves / James Moffett -- Inez / Merle Hodge -- A new window display / Nicholosa Mohr -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty.