Elbow Room (short story collection)
 First edition cover | |
| Author | James Alan McPherson |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.[1]
Contents[]
The twelve short stories of Elbow Room appear in the following sequence:[2]
- "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[]
- ^ Roberts, Sam (July 27, 2016). "James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Dies at 72". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
- ^ Elbow room : stories (Book, 1977) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 2965160.
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Categories:
- 1977 short story collections
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning works
- Single-writer short story collections
- Little, Brown and Company books
- African-American short story collections
- English-language books
- 1970s short story collection stubs