On an island off the coast of Maine, the Miller family reunites to celebrate the father's 75th birthday. Each of the adult children is expecting a first child, and at the same time each is at a major crossroads in life. The novel deftly explores the myriad ways of seeking sustenance after disappointment or loss.
On an island off the coast of Maine, the Miller family reunites to celebrate the father's 75th birthday. Each of the adult children is expecting a fir...
Bestselling author and pop culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, and this years collection is an eclectic and exciting mix of diverse voices. Contributors include Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, Mary Gordon, and others.
Bestselling author and pop culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, and this years collection is an eclectic an...
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a magnificent array (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect (Publishers Weekly). Contributors include T. C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Russell, and others.
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a magnificent array (Library Journal) of voi...
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.
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna fo...
Edited by theaward-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year s collection boasts a satisfying chorus oftwenty 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 tobe of enduring quality (Chicago Tribune) this year. "
Edited by theaward-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year s collection boasts a satisfying chorus oftwenty stories that are by turns pl...
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman,...
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest sho...
The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Short Stories 2012 includes
Nathan Englander, Mary Gaitskill,...
The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest ...
"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new classic of American fiction." Egan "possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart" (New York Times Book Review).
"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- Shelf Awareness for Reader...
In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the belovedBest 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 suddenfreedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will...
In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the belovedBest American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, The Model T gave w...
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, they settled in the suburbs to raise their two children.
But 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.
Hannah was tall and graceful, naturally pretty, spirited and impulsive, the upper-class young woman who picked, of all men, Lovell---the introverted c...
