Best American short stories
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The best American short stories, 1953
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The best American short stories, 1954
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The best American short stories, 1955
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The best American short stories, 1956
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The best American short stories, 1957
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The best American short stories, 1958
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The best American short stories, 1959
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The best American short stories, 1960
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The best American short stories, 1961
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The best American short stories, 1962
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The best American short stories, 1963
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The best American short stories, 1964
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The best American short stories, 1965
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The best American short stories, 1966
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The best American short stories, 1967
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The best American short stories, 1968
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The best American short stories, 1969
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The best American short stories, 1970
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The best American short stories, 1971
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The best American short stories, 1972
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The best American short stories, 1973
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The best American short stories, 1974
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The best American short stories, 1975
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The best American short stories, 1976
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The best American short stories, 1977
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The best American short stories, 1978
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The best American short stories, 1979
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The best American short stories, 1980
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The best American short stories, 1981
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The best American short stories, 1983
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The best American short stories, 1985
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The best American short stories, 1986
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The best American short stories, 1987
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The best American short stories, 1988
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The best American short stories, 1989
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The best American short stories, 1990
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The best American short stories, 1993
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The best American short stories, 1996
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The best American short stories, 1999
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The best American short stories, 2006
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
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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2010
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English
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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.
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Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord.
The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical "The Sleep,"...
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English
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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...
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[2021]
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English
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In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences,...
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English
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
