The Best American Short Stories 2015 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547939418 ISBN 13 : 9780547939414

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved  Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” Mulling over the question of character likability, series editor Heidi Pitlor asks, “Did I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories, as did T. C. Boyle.” Here are characters who “are living, breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts.”   T. C. BOYLE, guest editor, has published fifteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel  World’s End and the Prix Médicis étranger for  The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing. His most recent book is the novel  The Harder They Come. HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels  The Birthdays  and The Daylight Marriage.

Revue de presse :

BASS 2013:"Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus

BASS 2013:"Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus BASS 2012:"A typically strong selection ... that should please readers who love the traditional pleasures of storytelling, through voices that are thoroughly contemporary." – Kirkus "The best short stories are small only when measured by the number of pages. Editor Tom Perrotta...assembles a stellar collection of 20 stories that create their own worlds in 20 pages or less." –USA Today

"Confrontational and at times confounding, these are stories to get lost in, then gratefully chart a path homeward." --Kirkus Reviews

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0547939418
• ISBN 13: 9780547939414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Boyle T.C.