The Best American Short Stories 2001
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0618155643 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 529 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kingsolver’s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. This year’s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours.” Barbara Kingsolver
Aina said Get it for "The Apple Tree" (and all the others). I love this series, and this "Get it for "The Apple Tree" (and all the others)" according to Aina. I love this series, and this 2001 is still my favorite. I lost our original so I bought it again. "The Apple Tree" is probably my favorite short story I've read. "Boys" is a short, fast roller-coaster of emotion and impact--breathtaking "Cowboy Chicken" is excellent. If you like short stories--get it!. 001 is still my favorite. I lost our original so I bought it again. "The Apple Tree" is probably my favorite short story I've read. "Boys" is a short, fast roller-coaster of emotion and impact--breathtaking "Cowboy Chicken" is excellent. If you like short stories--get it!. A wonderful collection biblio This is a wonderful collection of short stories. Many of them are from small literary magazines, and I would have not encountered these stories and authors if Barbara Kingsolver had not assembled this great collection. In addition to some of my longtime favorite writers (John Updike, Alice Monro, Rick Bass), I met som. "One of the best" according to Alisha Karabinus. I feel as though the Best American Series is hit or miss, though I still collect them and have about twenty-five years' worth. This, however, is one of my very favorites. Even Kingsolver's intro is worth reading -- she is real and honest and has a lot to say about writing that's worth reading. A number of great storie
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. In Orner's brief tale, "The Raft," a grandfather ushers his grandson into a closet to tell him an old WWII story in a new way. "Servants of the Map," the extraordinary novella- length story by Barrett, tells the tale of an English mapmaker in 1860s India struggling with his demanding job, loneliness and, most of all, his unquenchable desire to be a botanist. Munro is her usual magical self in "Post and Beam," in which a young Vancouver wife comes to terms with the immutability of married life. This is mostly a good thing entries by veteran writers like Alice Munro, John Updike and Annette Sanford, and by relative newcomers like Andrea Barrett, Barbara Klein Moss and Peter Orner are intellectually stimulating and satisfying but the inclusion of a few lighter selections might have leavened the mix. Ha Jin, in "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town," tells of the impact an American fast food franchise in