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The best American short stories 2013 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Elizabeth Strout; Heidi Pitlor; Daniel Alarcón; Charles Baxter; Michael Byers; Junot Díaz; Karl Taro Greenfeld; Gish Jen; Bret Anthony Johnston; Sheila Kohler; David Means; Steven Millhauser; Lorrie Moore; Alice Munro; Antonya Nelson; Kirstin Valdez Quade; Suzanne Rivecca; George Saunders; Jim Shepard; Elizabeth Tallent; Joan Wickersham; Callan Wink is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the “Magic Man.” Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “Nemecia” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham’s “The Tunnel” is a tragic love story about a mother’s declining health and her daughter’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink’s “Breatharians” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim cho

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Author

Elizabeth Strout; Heidi Pitlor; Daniel Alarcón; Charles Baxter; Michael Byers; Junot Díaz; Karl Taro Greenfeld; Gish Jen; Bret Anthony Johnston; Sheila Kohler; David Means; Steven Millhauser; Lorrie Moore; Alice Munro; Antonya Nelson; Kirstin Valdez Quade; Suzanne Rivecca; George Saunders; Jim Shepard; Elizabeth Tallent; Joan Wickersham; Callan Wink

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547554839

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Collections

Rating

3.66 / 5 (900 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14