The Winter 1983 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Raymond Carver. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"Quantum Jumps," by Tim O'Brien
"Sister," by Tobias Wolff
"Approximations," by Mona Simpson
"The Farmer's Wife," by Lynda Lloyd
"A Pair of Glasses," by Tess Gallagher
"Trespass," by Sandra Scofield
"Not Modern," by Jamie Diamond
"The Eighth Day," by Max Apple
"Blue Stone," by William Kittredge
"Fathers," by Robley Wilson
"The Loneliness Quiz," by Barbara P. Erdle
"Offices of Instruction," by Jocelyn Hausmann
"Amanda," by Jay McInerney
"The Rain You Come to Expect," by David R. Young
"The Seasons,' by Joyce Carol Oates
"Embarrassment," by Donald Hall