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THE BEST AMEERICAN SHORT STORIES 2004 by Lorrie Moore; Katrina Kenison; Sherman Alexie; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Catherine Brady; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Charles D'Ambrosio; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Paula Fox; Nell Freudenberger; Edward P Jones; Trudy Lewis; Jill McCorkle; Thomas McGuane; Alice Munro; Angela Pneuman; Annie Proulx; R. T Smith; John Updike; Mary Yukari Waters; John Edgar Wideman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><p>Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.<br> Lorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 is an eclectic and enthralling gathering of well-known voices and talented up-and-comers. Here are stories that probe the biggest issues&#58; ambition, gender, romance, war. Here are funny and touching and striking tales of a Spokane Indian, the estranged wife of an Iranian immigrant, an American tutor in Bombay. In her introduction Lorrie Moore writes, "The stories collected here impressed me with their depth of knowledge and feeling of character, setting, and situation . . . They spoke with amused intelligence, compassion, and

Author
Lorrie Moore; Katrina Kenison; Sherman Alexie; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Catherine Brady; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Charles D'Ambrosio; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Paula Fox; Nell Freudenberger; Edward P Jones; Trudy Lewis; Jill McCorkle; Thomas McGuane; Alice Munro; Angela Pneuman; Annie Proulx; R. T Smith; John Updike; Mary Yukari Waters; John Edgar Wideman
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780618197347
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
Rating
3.93 / 5 (722 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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