a ISBN 0-8149-0750-4

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PS648.S5

b Item number O28

a Dewey Classification 813/.01

a Personal name Oates, Joyce Carol,

d Dates associated with a name 1938-

a Title Scenes from American life;

b Remainder of title contemporary short fiction.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York,

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Vanguard Press

c Date of publication, distribution, etc [1973]

a Extent x, 271 p.

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Formatted contents note Ford, J. H. The bitter bread.--Updike, J. Flight.--MacLeod, A. The boat.--Taylor, P. The fancy woman.--McPherson, J. A. Of cabbages and kings.--Marsh, W. Mending wall.--Downey, H. The hunters.--Yurick, S. The siege.--Welty, E. The demonstrators.--Summers, H. The third ocean.--Stafford, J. In the zoo.--O'Connor, F. Revelation.--Malamud, B. My son the murderer.--Madden, D. The singer.--Oates, J. C. Plot.--Newman, C. A dolphin in the forest, a wild boar on the waves.--Merwin, W. S. The Dachau shoe. Make this simple test. Postcards from the Maginot Line.--Godwin, G. A sorrowful woman.--Coover, R. The hat act.--Barth, J. Autobiography: a self-recorded fiction.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Short stories American