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The best American short stories 2015 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by T. Coraghessan Boyle; Diane Cook; Louise Erdrich; Ben Fowlkes; Shobha Rao; Jess Walter; Laura Lee Smith; Aria Beth Sloss; Joan Silber; Maile Meloy; Thomas McGuane; Elizabeth McCracken; Colum McCann; Victor Lodato; Sarah Kokernot; Denis Johnson; Arna Bontemps Hemenway; Julia Elliott; Megan Mayhew Bergman; Kevin Canty; Justin Bigos; Heidi Pitlor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition. Boyles choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his suddenfreedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold andsurprise, which according to Boyle is what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage ofsuch in this years selections. Mulling over the question of character likability, series editor Heidi Pitlor asks, Did I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories, as did T. C. Boyle. Here are characters who are living, breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts. T. C. BOYLE, guest editor, has published fifteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel Worlds End and the Prix Mdicis tranger f
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- Author
- T. Coraghessan Boyle; Diane Cook; Louise Erdrich; Ben Fowlkes; Shobha Rao; Jess Walter; Laura Lee Smith; Aria Beth Sloss; Joan Silber; Maile Meloy; Thomas McGuane; Elizabeth McCracken; Colum McCann; Victor Lodato; Sarah Kokernot; Denis Johnson; Arna Bontemps Hemenway; Julia Elliott; Megan Mayhew Bergman; Kevin Canty; Justin Bigos; Heidi Pitlor
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780547939438
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (626 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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