The Best American Short Stories, 2009 : : Selected From U.s. and Canadian Magazines
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Introduction / Alice Sebold -- Idiot President / Daniel Alarcon -- Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt -- Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein -- A shadow table / Alice Fulton -- NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- Farms / Eleanor Henderson -- Sagittarius / Grek Hrbek -- Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson -- Anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta -- A man like him / Yiyun Li -- Briefcase / Rebecca Makkai -- Magic words / Jill McCorkle -- One dog year / Kevin Moffett -- Modulation / Richard Powers -- Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx -- Into the gorge / Ron Rash -- Ostracon / Alex Rose -- Peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford -- Muzungu / Namwali Serpell.
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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Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xviii, 347 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780618792245
0618792244
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sebold, Alice.
Pitlor, Heidi.
SUBJECTS
Short stories.
American fiction -- 21st century.