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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007 (New Stories from the South)by Edward Jones
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This enduring celebration of the short story only gets better with age and this year enlists the talents of guest editor Edward P. Jones, andquot;one of the most important writers of his own generation and of the present dayandquot; (the Washington Post Book World). In 1993, for the first time in his career, Edward P. Jones had a short story selected for an anthology. The story was andquot;Marie.andquot; The anthology was the eighth volume of New Stories from the South. Now, the Pulitzer Prizeand#8211;winning novelist and short story writer returns to guest edit and introduce the twenty-second volume of this distinguished anthology. Jones brings to the task his artistic vision for the short story and finds its best practitioners, and not just those with well-established names (James Lee Burke, Rick Bass, Tim Gautreaux, George Singleton) but writers just beginning their careers (Holly Goddard Jones, Joshua Ferris, Angela Threat, Philipp Meyer). Jones chooses eighteen stellar stories for the 2007 collection, stories that hold a special resonance for him. As he says in his introduction, andquot;For something to claim me long after the last sentence, I need a sense that the world, for even one character, has shifted, whether to a large or a tiny degree. . . . I have tried to do my best to pick stories that are not, to use some of William Faulkner's words, about the glands, but about the human heart.andquot; Review:"The 21st edition of Algonquin's signature anthology is not the series' strongest, but it's consistent and entertaining. Unlike some previous editions, the majority of the stories have something to do with the geographic South. Joshua Ferris's 'Ghost Town Choir,' set in Florida's Big Coppitt Key, begins with a son's witnessing a single mother's breakup rage, and also shows off a writer's ability to violate most of the rules of short fiction by using dual points of view. The tabloids inform Holly Goddard Jones's 'Life Expectancy,' which opens on a high school basketball coach's affair with a sophmore, and the haunting and horrifying portrait of a homicidal maniac in 'Beauty and Virtue' by Augustín Maes is the strongest offering in the collection. Although it's the least overtly southern story in the book, Daniel Wallace's short vignette about marriage and perception of beauty is touching. The remainder, while always rewarding, tends to drift into stylistic showboating or to lack a deep connection to their backgrounds and settings. Nevertheless, editor Jones (All Aunt Hagar's Children, etc.) has brought a sharp eye to a venerable tradition, stewarded by series editor Kathy Pories." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer Jones made his first appearance in New Stories from the South in 1993 and returns to guest edit and introduce the 22nd volume of this distinguished anthology. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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