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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates; Christopher R. Beha; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Richard Burgin; Michael Chabon; Edwidge Danticat; Lydia Davis; Junot Daz; E.L. Doctorow; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Louise Erdrich; Sherman Alexie; Richard Ford; Ben Fountain; Mary Gaitskill; William Gay; Adam Haslett; Amy Hempel; Denis Johnson; Greg Johnson; Edward P. Jones; Matthew Klam; Russell Banks; Sheila Kohler; Jhumpa Lahiri; Elizabeth McCracken; Thomas McGuane; David Means; Maile Meloy; Steven Millhauser; Lorrie Moore; Antonya Nelson; Rick Bass; Tim O'Brien; Chuck Palahniuk; Annie Proulx; George Saunders; Douglas Unger; John Updike; David Foster Wallace; Edmund White; John Edgar Wideman; Tobias Wolff; Richard Bausch; Charles Baxter; Ann Beattie; Aimee Bender; Pinckney Benedict is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction about?
<p><P><blockquote> <P>A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters<P> </blockquote> <P>Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" (<i>Buffalo News</i>), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.</p><h3>Kirkus Reviews</h3><p>A usual-suspects gathering of living American short-story writers, with a few nods to the up-and-coming generation. A short story is to a novel as an hour is to a year: a vignette, a slice of life, a situation. When the late Raymond Carver wrote one, it ended inconclusively and unhappily; if David Foster Wallace writes one, it has footnotes; if any one of a thousand young Brooklyn residents or MFA grads writes one, it is usually "edgy," with lots of product placement. Happily, Oates (My Sister, My Love, 2008, etc.) and debut acolyte Beha open with one of the most classically minded of contemporary short fictionists, namely the Spokane Indian writer Sherman Alexie, who, like the Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday (alive, but not included), can jab neatly at white audienc
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates; Christopher R. Beha; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Richard Burgin; Michael Chabon; Edwidge Danticat; Lydia Davis; Junot Daz; E.L. Doctorow; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Louise Erdrich; Sherman Alexie; Richard Ford; Ben Fountain; Mary Gaitskill; William Gay; Adam Haslett; Amy Hempel; Denis Johnson; Greg Johnson; Edward P. Jones; Matthew Klam; Russell Banks; Sheila Kohler; Jhumpa Lahiri; Elizabeth McCracken; Thomas McGuane; David Means; Maile Meloy; Steven Millhauser; Lorrie Moore; Antonya Nelson; Rick Bass; Tim O'Brien; Chuck Palahniuk; Annie Proulx; George Saunders; Douglas Unger; John Updike; David Foster Wallace; Edmund White; John Edgar Wideman; Tobias Wolff; Richard Bausch; Charles Baxter; Ann Beattie; Aimee Bender; Pinckney Benedict
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061661587
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Anthology
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (131 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14