''Elbow Room: Stories'' is a 1977 short story collection by American author
James Alan McPherson. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during ...
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
External links
Photos of the first edition of Elbow Room
1977 short story collections
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction–winning works
Little, Brown and Company books
African-American short story collections
English-language books
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