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)

Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American authorJames Alan McPherson. It won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.^[1]

The twelve short stories ofElbow 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"

• Photos of the first edition of Elbow Room

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