The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780195092622

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This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.


The Best American Short Stories 2018

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Author: Maria Anderson (Fiction author)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0544582888

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Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.


The Best American Short Stories of the Century

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 9780395843673

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Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").


What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Author: Raymond Carver

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-05-25

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1101970588

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The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. "Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us." —The New York Times Book Review


The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Author: Blanche H. Gelfant

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2004-04-21

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 0231504950

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Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.


The Best American Short Stories 2016

The Best American Short Stories 2016

Author: Junot Díaz

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9780544582897

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Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.


The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

Author: John Cheever

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 1093

ISBN-13: 0307743985

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian