Elbow Room (short story collection)

Elbow Room

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

1. Roberts, Sam (July 27, 2016). "James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Dies at 72". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
2. https://www.worldcat.org/title/elbow-room-stories/oclc/2965160&referer=brief_results

External links

• Photos of the first edition of Elbow Room