Best American short stories
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The best American short stories, 1953
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The best American short stories, 1954
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The best American short stories, 1955
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The best American short stories, 1956
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The best American short stories, 1957
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The best American short stories, 1958
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The best American short stories, 1959
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The best American short stories, 1960
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The best American short stories, 1961
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The best American short stories, 1962
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The best American short stories, 1963
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The best American short stories, 1964
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The best American short stories, 1965
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The best American short stories, 1966
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The best American short stories, 1967
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The best American short stories, 1968
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The best American short stories, 1969
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The best American short stories, 1970
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The best American short stories, 1971
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The best American short stories, 1972
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The best American short stories, 1973
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The best American short stories, 1974
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The best American short stories, 1975
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The best American short stories, 1976
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The best American short stories, 1977
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The best American short stories, 1978
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The best American short stories, 1979
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The best American short stories, 1980
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The best American short stories, 1981
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The best American short stories, 1982
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The best American short stories, 1983
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The best American short stories, 1984
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The best American short stories, 1985
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The best American short stories, 1986
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The best American short stories, 1987
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The best American short stories, 1989
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The best American short stories of the eighties
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The best American short stories, 1991
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The best American short stories, 1993
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The best American short stories, 1994
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The best American short stories, 1995
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The best American short stories, 1996
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The best American short stories, 1997
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The best American short stories, 1998
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[1999]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 775 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty,...
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The best American short stories, 1999
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The best American short stories, 2003
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2005.
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xvii, 411 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In "Until Gwen," Dennis Lehane offers a narrative experiment and a haunting picture of a father and son. Tom Perrotta's "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face" explores a Little League umpire's attempt to cope with his biggest personal regret and the inability to make a decisive call on the field. Thomas McGuane's "Old Friends" examines the intersection of shared history and obligation, while Joyce Carol Oates meditates on the inescapable bonds of family...
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The best American short stories, 2008
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The best American short stories, 2009
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The best American short stories, 2010
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2011
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English
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series
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The best American short stories 2012
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The best American short stories, 2015
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[2021]
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xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences,...
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[2023]
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xxvi, 308 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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The best American short stories 2024
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