The Best American Short Stories 2013 Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Elizabeth Strout; Heidi Pitlor
The Best American Short Stories is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction, guest edited in 2012 by Pultizer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
Summary
In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the “Magic Man.” Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “Nemecia” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham’s “The Tunnel” is a tragic love story about a mother’s declining health and her daughter’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink’s “Breatharians” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents’ estrangement.
“Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.”
From the jacket flap
As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might, writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. It s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are. "The Best American Short Stories 2013" presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world.
In Miss Lora, Junot Diaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the Magic Man. Kirstin Valdez Quade s Nemecia depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham s The Tunnel is a tragic love story about a mother s declining health and her daughter s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink s Breatharians unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents estrangement.
Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content, writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.
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- Title The Best American Short Stories 2013
- Author Elizabeth Strout; Heidi Pitlor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin
- Date 2013-10-08
- ISBN 9780547554839 / 0547554834
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.5 x 0.99 in (21.23 x 13.97 x 2.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.010
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- Booklist, 10/01/2013, Page 31
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