The Best American Short Stories 2009 - Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Alice Sebold

Klappentext Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

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"[T]he stories are a sort of antenna for what is going on in the world....Even topical stories are of enduring quality , and the same is true for several other stories that wrestle with contemporary religion and faith." -- Chicago Tribune

"How good there's was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question - what is an American story? - is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."-- USA Today

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Pitlor, Alice Sebold
• Assisted by: Heidi Pitlor (Editor), Alice Sebold (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.10.2009
• EAN: 9780618792252
• ISBN: 978-0-618-79225-2
• No. of pages: 347
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Best American Short Stories; Best American; Best American Short Stories
• 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