{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2011-paperback","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2011 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeidi Pitlor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Best American Series(R) \u003cbr\u003eFirst, Best, and Best-Selling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. \u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2011\u003c\/i\u003e includes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan, \u003cbr\u003eNathan Englander, Allegra Goodman, \u003cbr\u003eEhud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2011\u003c\/i\u003e, Geraldine Brooks draws the comparison between a well-told joke and a good short story. She writes, Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft strokes. There s generally a setup, a reveal, a reversal, and a release . . . In the joke and in the short story, the beginning and end are precisely anchored tent poles, and what lies between must pull so taut it twangs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty tightly crafted stories collected here are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often, like good jokes, surprising humor. Richard Powers s To the Measures Fall is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical The Sleep, Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape while in Steve Millhauser s imagined town the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in The Phantoms. Allegra Goodman s spare but beautiful La Vita Nuova finds a jilted fiancee letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Brooks pursued these richly imagined and varied landscapes she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers. \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Best American Series(r)\u003cbr\u003eFirst, Best, and Best-Selling \u003cbr\u003eThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2011\u003c\/i\u003e includes \u003cbr\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan, \u003cbr\u003eNathan Englander, Allegra Goodman, \u003cbr\u003eEhud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others\u003cbr\u003eGERALDINE BROOKS, editor, is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eCaleb s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarch \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and \u003ci\u003eYear of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, and the nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eNine Parts of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons. \u003cbr\u003eLook for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series: \u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN COMICS\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52520099184947,"sku":"9780547242163","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MzhaRkZ3U3dSalZDMnU1QjhMRmVLQT09.webp?v=1760518416","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2011-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}