The best American short stories 2010 / Richard Russo ; Heidi Pitlor

Titre : The best American short stories 2010 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Richard Russo ; Heidi Pitlor Editeur : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 Importance : xix, 421 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-547-05532-9 Index. décimale : RA romans en anglais Résumé : Richard Russo characterizes this volume of The Best American Short Stories as "a showcase of twenty writers' often breathtaking talents." He is pleased to report in his introduction that "there's no showing off and the stories themselves---rich and varied---are blessedly free of the narcissism of the age." The nuanced tales collected here brim with both style and substance. Readers are treated to glimpses inside various walks of life: Danielle Evans's young soldier gamely babysitting his ex-girlfriend's daughter upon his return from combat, Jill McCorkle's suburban divorcee who gets the last word in a letter to her marriage counselor, and Joshua Ferris's irascible resident of a Florida retirement community marking yet another birthday. Marlin Barton takes readers "Into Silence" with his masterly imagining of a deaf woman's life-altering meeting with a WPA photographer in Depression-era Alabama. And going down the path of "Least Resistance" is a young mechanic in Wayne Harrison's astute portrait of both an affair and a marriage. -- Thoughtful and thought-provoking, the writers Russo selected have, in his words, offered us "the gift of what they'd crafted with such care, hoping we'd be pleased. And you will be." --Résumé de l'éditeur. Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.

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