{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-paperback-4","title":"The Best American Short Stories - 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\u003eJennifer Egan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.\" -- \u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness for Readers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2014\u003c\/em\u003e will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for \u003cem\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad, \u003c\/em\u003e heralded by \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine as \"a new classic of American fiction.\" Egan \"possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Best American Series \u003cbr\u003e People will keep reading fiction as long as it provides an experience of pleasure and insight that they can't find anywhere else,\" writes guest editor Jennifer Egan. The Best American Short Stories 2014 provides pleasurable and insightful fiction that compels, surprises, and engages. From a hospital s neonatal intensive care unit to the human face of American forces who have served in Afghanistan, from the rise and fall of an indie rocker to the fate of Madame Bovary s greyhound, the stories in this collection, according to Egan, explore the wider world at this specific point in time. \u003cbr\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2014 includes Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, T. C. Boyle, Joshua Ferris, Lauren Groff, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Russell, Laura van den Berg, and others. \u003cbr\u003e[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] JENNIFER EGAN, editor, is the author of The Invisible Circus, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and the best-selling The Keep. Her latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, a national bestseller, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \u003cbr\u003eHEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and the forthcoming The Daylight Marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENNIFER EGAN is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, \u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eEmerald City.\u003c\/i\u003e HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Birthdays\u003c\/i\u003e and has a novel forthcoming in Spring, 2015.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\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 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52520096661811,"sku":"9780547868868","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/elVnaE82R3piYUVxb1FZS2VhV1lPdz09.webp?v=1760518406","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-paperback-4","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}