The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys ; Blonde , which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls , which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Christopher R. Beha has written for the New York Times Book Review , Bookforum , and The Believer . The Whole Five Feet , his memoir of a year spent reading the Harvard Classics, will be published in 2009. Klappentext A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" ( Buffalo News ), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer. Zusammenfassung A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters Edited by Joyce Carol Oates! "the living master of the short story" ( Buffalo News )! and Christopher R. Beha! this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher R. Beha, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol/ Beha Oates
• Con la collaborazione di: Christopher R. Beha (Editore), Joyce Carol Oates (Editore)
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780061661587
• ISBN: 978-0-06-166158-7
• Pagine: 784
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 227 mm x 41 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Diaries, letters and journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), COMPOSITION & WRITING: NOVEL IDEAS, COMPOSITION & WRITING: READERS AND ANTHOLOGIES, anthology;fiction;short fiction;short stories;2007;2008;2009, Composition & Writing / Novel Ideas, Composition & Writing / Readers & Anthologies