| Description |
xix, 360 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series
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Best American series.
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| Summary |
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- The provincials from Granta / Daniel Alarcón -- Bravery from Tin house / Charles Baxter -- Malaria from Bellevue literary review / Michael Byers -- Miss Lora from New Yorker / Junot D́íaz -- Horned men from ZYZZYVA / Karl Taro Greenfield -- The third dumpster from Granta / Gish Jen -- Encounters with unexpected animals from Esquire / Bret Anthony Johnston -- Magic man from Yale review / Sheila Kohler -- The chair from Paris review / David Means -- A voice in the night from New Yorker / Steven Millhauser -- Referential from New Yorker / Lorrie Moore -- Train from Harper's / Alice Munro -- Chapter two from New Yorker / Antonya Nelson -- Nemecia from Narrative magazine / Kristin Valdez Quade -- Philanthropy from Granta / Suzanne Rivecca -- The Semplica-girl diaries from New Yorker / George Saunders -- The world to come from One story / Jim Shepard -- The wilderness from Threepenny review / Elizabeth Tallent -- The tunnel, or the news from Spain from Glimmer train / Joan Wickersham -- Breatharians from New Yorker / Callan Wink -- Contributors' notes -- Other distinguished stories of 2012 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, Canadian.
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American fiction -- 21st century.
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Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Strout, Elizabeth, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Pitlor, Heidi, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
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| ISBN |
9780547554822 hardcover |
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0547554826 hardcover |
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