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The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Best American Short Stories)

by Salman Rushdie

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Publisher Comments:

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized. With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly).

"We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself." Salman Rushdie, editor

The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes Kevin Brockmeier, Allegra Goodman, A.M. Homes, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem, Steven Millhauser, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Munro, George Saunders, Tobias Wolff, and others.

Synopsis:

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Rushdie, boasts an array of voices both new and recognized. Contributors include T.C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Lethem, and Karen Russell.
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About the Author

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.
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Table of Contents

"Admiral"
T. C. Boyle
Harper's Magazine

"The Year of Silence"
Kevin Brockmeier
Ecotone

"Galatea"
Karen Brown
Crazyhorse

"Man and Wife"
Katie Chase
The Missouri Review

"Virgins"
Danielle Evans
The Paris Review

"Closely Held"
Allegra Goodman
Ploughshares

"May We Be Forgiven"
A. M. Homes
Granta

"From the Desk of Daniel Varsky"
Nicole Krauss
Harper's Magazine

"The King of Sentences"
Jonathan Lethem
The New Yorker

"The Worst You Ever Feel"
Rebecca Makkai
Shenandoah

"The Wizard of West Orange"
Steven Millhauser
Harper's Magazine

"Nawabdin Electrician"
Daniyal Mueenuddin
The New Yorker

"Child's Play"
Alice Munro
Harper's Magazine

"Buying Lenin"
Miroslav Penkov
The Southern Review

"Vampires in the Lemon Grove"
Karen Russell
Zoetrope All-Story

"Puppy"
George Saunders
The New Yorker

"Quality of Life"
Christine Sneed
New England Review

"Missionaries" Bradford Tice
The Atlantic Monthly

"Straightaway"
Mark Wisniewski
The Antioch Review

"Bible"
Tobias Wolff
The Atlantic Monthly

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780618788774
Author:
Rushdie, Salman
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Selected by:
Pitlor, Heidi
Selected:
Pitlor, Heidi
Editor:
Pitlor, Heidi
Editor:
Pitlor, Heidi; Rushdie, Salman
Author:
Pitlor, Heidi
Subject:
American fiction
Subject:
Short stories, American
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Anthologies-General
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Best American Short Stories
Publication Date:
20081008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.18x5.58x.97 in. .83 lbs.
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