Description: 100 years of the best American short stories

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100 years of the best American short stories

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.

Other Authors:	Moore, Lorrie,, Pitlor, Heidi,, Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968., Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941., Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961., Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933., Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940., Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980., Faulkner, William, 1897-1962., Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988., Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001., Cheever, John., Olsen, Tillie., Baldwin, James, 1924-1987., Roth, Philip., O'Connor, Flannery., Updike, John., Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988., Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, Barthelme, Donald., Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995., Paley, Grace., Baxter, Charles, 1947-, Simpson, Mona., Ford, Richard, 1944-, Stone, Robert, 1937-2015., Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018., Munro, Alice, 1931-, Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, Kincaid, Jamaica., Sharma, Akhil, 1971-, Díaz, Junot, 1968-, Lahiri, Jhumpa., Packer, ZZ., Alexie, Sherman, 1966-, Jones, Edward P., Percy, Benjamin., Wolff, Tobias, 1945-, Englander, Nathan., Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, Saunders, George, 1958-, Groff, Lauren.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Physical Description:	xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:	Best American series.
Subjects:	Short stories, American. American fiction -- 20th century. American fiction -- 21st century.
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Summary:	Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
Item Description:	Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories. 1915-1920. Gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- 1920-1930. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson; My old man / Ernest Hemingway; Haircut / Ring Lardner -- 1930-1940. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; Cracked looking-glass / Katherine Anne Porter; That will be fine / William Faulkner -- 1940-1950. Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale; Whole world knows / Eudora Welty; Enormous radio / John Cheever -- 1950-1960. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- 1960-1970. Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; Pigeon feathers / John Updike; Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver; By the river / Joyce Carol Oates -- 1970-1980. School / Donald Barthelme; Conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- 1980-1990. Friends / Grace Paley; Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter; Lawns / Mona Simpson; Communist / Richard Ford; Helping / Robert Stone; Displacement / David Wong Louie -- 1990-2000. Friend of my youth / Alice Munro; Girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill; Xuela / Jamaica Kincaid; If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma; Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz -- 2000-2010. Third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri; Brownies / ZZ Packer; What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie; Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones; Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy; Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff -- 2010-2015. What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander; Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka; Semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders; At the round Earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff. Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
Physical Description:	xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780547485850 0547485859