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The Best American Short Stories 2009

The Best American Short Stories 2009

Yiyun Li
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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" . The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" , ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

The idiot President / Daniel Alarcón --
Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt --
Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein --
A shadow table / Alice Fulton --
NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld --
The farms / Eleanor Henderson --
Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek --
Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson --
The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta --
A man like him / Yiyun Li --
The 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 --
The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford --
Muzungu / Namwali Serpell --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2008 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mariner Books
Release
October 08, 2009
ISBN
0618792252
ISBN 13
9780618792252

The Best American Short Stories 2009

Yiyun Li
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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" . The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" , ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

The idiot President / Daniel Alarcón --
Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt --
Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein --
A shadow table / Alice Fulton --
NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld --
The farms / Eleanor Henderson --
Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek --
Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson --
The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta --
A man like him / Yiyun Li --
The 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 --
The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford --
Muzungu / Namwali Serpell --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2008 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mariner Books
Release
October 08, 2009
ISBN
0618792252
ISBN 13
9780618792252

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