Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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For use in schools and libraries only. The best-selling and award-winning Jennifer Egan guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
" The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history ...
Presents a collection of fifty-six familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, and Kate Chopin.
These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew.
New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.
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 -- EDNA FERBER SHERWOOD ANDERSON ERNEST HEMINGWAY ...
Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
Curtis Sittenfeld is the best-selling author of five novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible. Her first story collection, You Think It, I'll Say It, will be published in 2018 and will include ...