Author: Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547898363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the “Magic Man.” Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “Nemecia” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham’s “The Tunnel” is a tragic love story about a mother’s declining health and her daughter’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink’s “Breatharians” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents’ estrangement. “Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.”
The Best American Short Stories 2013
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547898363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the “Magic Man.” Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “Nemecia” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham’s “The Tunnel” is a tragic love story about a mother’s declining health and her daughter’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink’s “Breatharians” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents’ estrangement. “Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.”
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547898363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the “Magic Man.” Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “Nemecia” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham’s “The Tunnel” is a tragic love story about a mother’s declining health and her daughter’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink’s “Breatharians” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents’ estrangement. “Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.”
The Best American Short Stories 2014
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547819226
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547819226
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
The Best American Short Stories 2012
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547242107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547242107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
American Short Story Masterpieces
Author: Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.
Sudden Fiction
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Author: Katrina Kenison
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547485859
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547485859
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
The Best American Short Stories 2016
Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544582897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544582897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780618517473
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780618517473
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.