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Elbow Room (short story collection)

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1977

Publisher
  
Little, Brown and Company

Genres
  
Anthology, Fiction

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Publication date
  
1977

Author
  
James Alan McPherson

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Similar
  
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners, Fiction books

Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

Contents

The twelve short stories of Elbow Room appear in the following sequence:

  • "Why I like Country Music"
  • "The Story of a Dead Man"
  • "The Silver Bullet"
  • "The Faithful"
  • "Problems of Art"
  • "The Story of a Scar"
  • "I am an American"
  • "Widows and Orphans"
  • "A Loaf of Bread"
  • "Just Enough for the City"
  • "A Sense of Story"
  • "Elbow Room"

    • References

    Elbow Room (short story collection) Wikipedia
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