The Best American Short Stories 2019

The Best American Short Stories 2019
ISBN-10
1328465829
ISBN-13
9781328465825
Category
Fiction
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
2019-10
Publisher
Best American Series (R)
Authors
Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor

Description

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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