Elbow Room (short story collection)

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]

Elbow Room

First edition cover
Author	James Alan McPherson
Language	English
Publisher	Little, Brown
Publication date	1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)

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"