The Best American Short Stories 2008

Informationen zum Autor Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for  The Best American Short Stories  since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation. Klappentext This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a ?magnificent array? (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition ?reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect? (Publishers Weekly). ?We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself.??Salman Rushdie, editor The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER • ALLEGRA GOODMAN • A. M. HOMES • NICOLE KRAUSS • JONATHAN LETHEM • STEVEN MILLHAUSER • DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN • ALICE MUNRO • GEORGE SAUNDERS • TOBIAS WOLFF • and others Zusammenfassung This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers Weekly). “We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself.”—Salman Rushdie, editor The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER • ALLEGRA GOODMAN • A. M. HOMES • NICOLE KRAUSS • JONATHAN LETHEM • STEVEN MILLHAUSER • DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN • ALICE MUNRO • GEORGE SAUNDERS • TOBIAS WOLFF • and others...

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Pitlor, Salman Rushdie, Salman (COM)/ Pitlor Rushdie
• Assisted by: Heidi Pitlor (Editor), Salman Rushdie (Editor)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2008
• EAN: 9780618788774
• ISBN: 978-0-618-78877-4
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Best American Short Stories; Best American; Best American Series (R); Best American Short Stories; The Best American Series ®
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Noir, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Literary