The Best American Short Stories 1977

**Page # | Title | Author** xi | Foreword | Martha Foley (Foreward) 1 | The Trouble with Being Food | Frederick Busch (Esquire 1976) 15 | Tarzan Meets the Department Head | Price Caldwell (The Carleton Miscellany 1976) 24 | Falconer | John Cheever (Playboy Jan 1976) 43 | At Peace | Ann Copeland (Canadian Fiction Magazine Aug 1976) 66 | Pleadings | John William Corrington (The Southern Review 1976) 102 | Growing Up in No Time | Philip Damon (Hawaii Review 1976) 111 | The Steinway Quintet | Leslie Epstein (Antæus 1976) 161 | The Lover | Eugene K. Garber (Shenandoah 1976) 181 | Look at a Teacup | Patricia Hampl (The New Yorker Jun 28 1976) 188 | Rider | Baine Kerr (The Denver Quarterly 1976) 205 | A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon | John Matthews (Malahat Review Jul 1976) 210 | A Passion for History | Stephen Minot (The Sewanee Review Spr 1976) 222 | The Woman Who Thought Like a Man | Charles Newman (The Partisan Review v43 #4 1976) 235 | Gay | Joyce Carol Oates (Playboy Dec 1976) 256 | Going After Cacciato | Tim O’Brien (Ploughshares Spr 1976) 275 | The Chink and the Clock People | Tom Robbins (American Review 1976) 291 | A Fresno Fable | William Saroyan (The New Yorker 1976) 293 | Breed | John Sayles (Atlantic Monthly Jul 1976) 317 | Your Place Is Empty | Anne Tyler (The New Yorker 1976) 338 | Anthropology: What Is Lost in Rotation | William S. Wilson (Antæus 1976) 351 | Biographical Notes | [Misc.] (bg) 355 | The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1976 | [Misc.] (bi)