Best American Short Stories 2011 (eBook, ePUB)

The Best American Series
Redaktion: Brooks, Geraldine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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," Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed-the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape-while in Steve Millhauser's imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in "Phantoms." Allegra Goodman's spare but beautiful "La Vita Nuova" finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in "Ceiling," her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers. The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from:

Megan Mayhew Bergman · Tom Bissell • Jennifer Egan • Nathan Englander • Ehud Havazelet • Bret Anthony Johnston • Claire Keegan • Sam Lipsyte • Rebecca Makkai • Elizabeth McCracken • Ricardo Nuila • Joyce Carol Oates • Jess Row • George Saunders • Mark Slouka

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547719290
• Artikelnr.: 40176539

Autorenporträt

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword (Geraldine Brooks)
Introduction (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Ceiling - From Granta (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
Housewifely Arts - From One Story (Tom Bissell)
A Bridge Under Water - From Agni (Jennifer Egan)
Out Of Body - From Tin House (Nathan Englander)
Free Fruit For Young Widows - From The New Yorker (Allegra Goodman)
La Vita Nuova - From The New Yorker (Ehud Havazelet)
Gurov In Manliattan - From Triquarterly (Caitlin Horrocks)
The Sleep - From The Atlantic Fiction For Kindle (Bret Anthony Johnston)
Soldier Of Fortune - From Glimmer Train (Claire Keegan)
Foster - From The New Yorker (Sam Lipsyte)
The Dungeon Master - From The New Yorker (Rebecca Makkai)
Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart - From Tin House (Elizabeth Mccracken)
Property - From Granta (Steven Millhauser)
Phantoms - From McSweeney's (Ricardo Nuila)
Dog Bites - From McSweeney's (Joyce Carol Oates)
Id - From The New Yorker (Richard Powers)
To The Measures Fall - From The New Yorker (Jess Row)
The Call Of Blood - From Harvard Review (George Saunders)
Escape From Spiderhead - From Die New Yorker (Mark Slouka)
The Hare's Mask (From Harper's Magazine)
Contributors' Notes
Other Distinguished Stories Of 2010
Editorial Addresses Of American And Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories