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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
"After his wife disappears following an argument, a climate scientist analyzes his marriage to an upper-class beauty, as he tries to piece together what happened to his wife."-- Provided by publisher.
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Over the years, Lovell and Hannah's conversations have become charged with resentments and unspoken desires. She has become withdrawn. His work affords him a convenient distraction. And then, after one explosive argument, Hannah vanishes. For the first time, Lovell is forced to e...
"This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed...
A collection of American short stories, originally published in 2008 and selected by editor Alice Sebold, including work by writers such as Joseph Epstein, Alice Fulton, and Kevin Moffett.
Lauren Groff selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published in 2023.
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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 ...
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...
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
"A novel that wrestles with the ways that women are hamstrung by maternal demands and social expectations, showing the impossibility of doing it all, as a single mother is hired to ghostwrite a memoir for an aspiring politician and it takes both of them combined to be the ideal s...
"Andrew Sean Greer...selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year." -- Publisher's website.
Hannah was tall and graceful, naturally pretty, spirited and impulsive, the upper-class young woman who picked, of all men, Lovell--the introverted climate scientist who thought he could change the world if he could just get everyone to listen to reason. After a magical honeymoon...