Category K General Fiction

 
   

K01

2004 words

Jay Parini. 1992. Bay of Arrows. New York: Henry Holt. p. 178--187.

001--233

   

ambiguous hyphen: court-house (22)

 

book-case (128)

 
   

K02

2011 words

Thomas McGuane. 1992. Nothing but Blue Skies. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 54--59.

001--226

   

K03

1999 words

Toni Morrison. 1992. Jazz. New York: A. Knopf. p. 187--195.

001--185

   

K04

2001 words

Louis Auchincloss. 1992. False Gods. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 207--213.

001--189

   

K05

2002 words

Rita Dove. 1992. Through the Ivory Gate. A Novel. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 232--239.

001--222

   

ambiguous hyphen: dun-colored (168)

 
   

K06

2004 words

Siri Hustvedt. 1992. The Blindfold. New York: Poseidon Press. p. 10--15.

001--191

   

typographical error: is corrected to its (119)

 

<&|>sic!: myself, It’s (77)

 
   

K07

2021 words

Gerald Vizenor. 1992. Dead Voices. Natural Agonies in the New World. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 26--34.

001--189

   

K08

2026 words

Susan Sontag. 1992. The Volcano Lover. A Romance. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. p. 18--24.

001--200

   

K09

2009 words

James Purdy. 1992. Out with the Stars. San Francisco: City Lights. p. 122--127.

001--227

   

K10

2009 words

John Updike. 1992. Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel. New York: A. Knopf. p. 64--70.

001--210

   

ambiguous hyphen: well-set (5)

 

sack-handler (16)

 
   

K11

2000 words

Ray Bradbury. 1992. Green Shadows, White Whale. A Novel. New York: A. Knopf. p. 253--260.

001--254

   

typographical error: Bolshevicks corrected to Bolsheviks (21)

 
   

K12

2013 words

Paul Auster. 1992. Leviathan. New York: Viking. p. 160--165.

001--172

   

K13

2006 words

Terry McMillan. 1992. Waiting to Exhale. New York: Viking. p. 161--166.

001--219

   

K14

2002 words

Nicholson Baker. 1992. Vox. A Novel. New York: Random House. p. 50--57.

 
   

typographical error: sproinging corrected to springing (170)

 
   

K15

2017 words

Larry McMurtry. 1992. The Evening Star. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 103--108.

001--206

   

K16

2038 words

Alice McDermott. At Weddings and Wakes. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. p. 3--9.

001--189

   

K17

2024 words

Robert Stone. 1992. Outerbridge Reach. New York: Tricknor & Fields. p. 85--91.

001--233

   

K18

2015 words

Robert James Waller. 1992. The Bridges of Madison County. New York: Warner Books. p. 70--79.

001--208

   

ambiguous hyphen: Koda-chrome (23)

 

live-stock (94)

 

old-style (104)

 

gun-fighter (169)

 

tele-communicative (200)

 
   

K19

2004 words

Ken Kesey. 1992. Sailor Song. New York: Penguin. p. 232--237.

001--203

   

ambiguous hyphen: prickle-eye (123)

 

process-wise (202)

 
   

K20

2007 words

Lori Toppel. 1992. Three Children. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 13--18.

001--192

   

ambiguous hyphen: small-boned (58)

 

pearl-skinned (102)

 
   

K21

2013 words

Melvin Jules Bukiet. 1992. Stories of an Imaginary Childhood. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 185--190.

001--216

   

K22

2011 words

Christopher Hope. 'Maundy.' The New Yorker, June 1, 1992. p. 29--31.

001--213

   

The Estate of Angela Carter copyright 1995. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.

 
   

K23

2009 words

Isaac Bashevis Singer. 1992. 'A Party in Miami Beach.' IN Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport, eds. Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers. New York: Schocken Books. p. 336--340.

001--189

   

typographical error: he corrected to He (76)

 

ambiguous hyphen: quarter-million-dollar (73)

 
   

K24

2028 words

Bernard Malamud. 1992. 'The Silver Crown.' IN Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport, eds. Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers. New York: Schocken Books. p. 172--177.

001--220

   

K25

2004 words

Johanna Kaplan. 1992. 'Sickness.' IN Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport, eds. Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers. New York: Schocken Books. p. 136--141.

001--207

   

K26

2013 words

Edward Falco. 'Radon.' The Virginia Quarterly 68, 1992. p. 258--263.

001--210

   

K27

2011 words

Madison Jones. 'Zoo.' The Sewanee Review 100, 1992. p. 348--353.

001--185

   

First published in the Sewanee Review, vol. 100, no. 3, Summer 1992. Copyright 1992 by Madison Jones. Reprinted with the permission of the editor and the author.

 
   

ambiguous hyphen: good-sized (7)

 

cotton-mouth (180)

 

<&|>sic!: grandaddy (141)

 
   

K28

2066 words

D.R. MacDonald. 'Green Grow the Grasses O.' TriQuarterly 83, Winter 1991/92. p. 7--11.

001--217

   

K29

2010 words

Stephen Peters. 'Babuji.' Prairie Schooner 66 (2), Summer 1992. p. 91--95.

001--188

   

ambiguous hyphen: half-way (59)

 

<&|>sic!: smokey windows (69)