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Title The best American short stories 2009 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Alice Sebold with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Alice Sebold.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  808.8 BES 2009    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.3 B464 2009    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  808.83 BES 2009    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  808.83 BEST 2009    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  813.01 BEST 2009    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  813.08 B46 2009    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F BEST AMERICAN 2009    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  813 BEST 2009    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 347 pages ; 22 cm.
Series The best American series
Best American series.
Note "0067-6233"--T.p. verso.
Contents Introduction / Alice Sebold -- Idiot President / Daniel Alarcon -- Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt -- Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein -- Shadow table / Alice Fulton -- NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- Farms / Eleanor Henderson -- Sagittarius / Grek Hrbek -- Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson -- Anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta -- Man like him / Yiyun Li -- Briefcase / Rebecca Makkai -- Magic words / Jill McCorkle -- One dog year / Kevin Moffett -- Modulation / Richard Powers -- Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx -- Into the gorge / Ron Rash -- Ostracon / Alex Rose -- Peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford -- Muzungu / Namwali Serpell.
Summary 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.
Genre/Form Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Subject Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Added Author Sebold, Alice.
Pitlor, Heidi.
ISBN 9780618792245 hardback
0618792244 hardback
9780618792252 paperback
0618792252 paperback
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