The Best American Short Stories 2004 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0618197346 ISBN 13 : 9780618197347

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Lorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 is an eclectic and enthralling gathering of well-known voices and talented up-and-comers. Here are stories that probe the biggest issues: ambition, gender, romance, war. Here are funny and touching and striking tales of a Spokane Indian, the estranged wife of an Iranian immigrant, an American tutor in Bombay. In her introduction Lorrie Moore writes, "The stories collected here impressed me with their depth of knowledge and feeling of character, setting, and situation . . . They spoke with amused intelligence, compassion, and dispassion."

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The Best American Short Stories anthology offers up an annual bumper crop of the best short fiction. This year's stories come handpicked by a beloved master of the form, Lorrie Moore. Ranging from the outrageously funny to the surprisingly moving, here is a sampling of the year's best on audio.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618197346
• ISBN 13: 9780618197347
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 462
• Éditeur: Moore Lorrie, Kenison Katrina