The Best American Short Stories 2013 Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Strout, Elizabeth, Pitlor, Heidi
- Used
The Best American Short Stories is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction, guest edited in 2012 by Pultizer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
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- Title The Best American Short Stories 2013
- Author Strout, Elizabeth, Pitlor, Heidi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin
- Date 2013-10-08
- Bookseller's Inventory # L07P-00297
- ISBN 9780547554839 / 0547554834
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.5 x 0.99 in (21.23 x 13.97 x 2.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.010
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Summary
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 chore in the wake of his parents’ estrangement.
“Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.”
From the jacket flap
In Miss Lora, Junot Diaz 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 chore in the wake of his parents estrangement.
Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content, writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/2013, Page 31
