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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Best American Short Stories)

by Alice Sebold

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Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

About the Author

Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of the novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold. The film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, is scheduled for release in 2009.Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin. Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.

 

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ISBN:
9780618792252
Author:
Sebold, Alice
Publisher:
Mariner Books
With:
Pitlor, Heidi
Editor:
Pitlor, Heidi
Author:
Pitlor, Heidi
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Edition Description:
2009 Paperback
Series:
Best American Short Stories
Publication Date:
October 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
347
Dimensions:
8.25x5.45x.88 in. .81 lbs.

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