The Best American Short Stories, 2006 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Ann Patchett with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Ann Patchett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.Description: xxii, 388 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0618543511
  • 9780618543519
  • 061854352X
  • 9780618543526
Other title:
  • American short stories, 2006
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 .B4 2006
Contents:
Introduction / Ann Patchett -- Once the shore / Paul Yoon -- Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff -- The ambush / Donna Tartt -- Secret / Maxine Swann -- Dominion / Mark Slouka -- So much for Artemis / Patrick Ryan -- Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Self-reliance / Edith Pearlman -- The view from Castle Rock / Alice Munro -- Tattooizm / Kevin Moffett -- Cowboy / Thomas McGuane -- The dog / Jack Livings -- After a life / Yiyun Li -- The conductor / Aleksandar Hemon -- Today I'm yours / Mary Gaitskill -- How we avenged the Blums / Nathan Englander -- Grandmother's nose / Robert Coover -- A new gravestone for an old grave / David Bezmozgis -- The casual car pool / Katherine Bell -- Mr. Nobody at all / Anne Beattie with Harry Mathews.
Summary: Since 1915 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 periodicals. 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 the most respected, and most popular, of its kind.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection PS 648 .S5 .B4 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98649075

Introduction / Ann Patchett -- Once the shore / Paul Yoon -- Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff -- The ambush / Donna Tartt -- Secret / Maxine Swann -- Dominion / Mark Slouka -- So much for Artemis / Patrick Ryan -- Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Self-reliance / Edith Pearlman -- The view from Castle Rock / Alice Munro -- Tattooizm / Kevin Moffett -- Cowboy / Thomas McGuane -- The dog / Jack Livings -- After a life / Yiyun Li -- The conductor / Aleksandar Hemon -- Today I'm yours / Mary Gaitskill -- How we avenged the Blums / Nathan Englander -- Grandmother's nose / Robert Coover -- A new gravestone for an old grave / David Bezmozgis -- The casual car pool / Katherine Bell -- Mr. Nobody at all / Anne Beattie with Harry Mathews.

Since 1915 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 periodicals. 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 the most respected, and most popular, of its kind.

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