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<p><p>The Best American Short Stories 2008 gathers an array of inventive and unforgettable stories. Favorite and newcomer writers explore contemporary topics such as cloning, literary envy, cults, and teenage sex, as well as timeless subjects&#58; love, sibling rivalry, immigration, and religion.<br> In Kevin Brockmeier&#8217;s stunning &#147;The Year of Silence,&#8221; an unnamed city must face the absence of all sound, followed by an excess of noise. Katie Chase&#8217;s bold and unsettling story, &#147;Man and Wife,&#8221; her first one published, brings to life an arranged marriage between a nine-year-old and a grown man. In A. M. Homes&#8217;s &#147;May We Be Forgiven,&#8221; two brothers&#8217; rivalry undoes their marriages and eventually their lives. Nicole Krauss writes of an inherited desk that comes to represent the burden of memory for a poet in her beautiful story, &#147;From the Desk of Daniel Varsky.&#8221; And Stephen Millhauser&#8217;s ingenious &#147;The Wizard of West Orange&#8221; imagines Edison and his colleagues inventing machines dedicated to the sense of touch.<br> In his introduction, Salman Rushdie writes, &#147;Some of these stories are immense, the so-ca

Author

Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Brown, Katie Chase, Danielle Evans, Allegra Goodman, A. M. Homes, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Munro, Miroslav Penkov, Karen Russell, George Saunders, Christine Sneed, Bradford Tice, Mark S. Wisniewski, Tobias Wolff

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618788767

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (1,506 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14