The Best American Short Stories 2014 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547819226 ISBN 13: 9780547819228

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Synopsis

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2014 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 A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).

About this title

About the Authors

JENNIFER EGAN is the author of The Invisible Circus, which was released as a feature film by Fine Line in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and the bestselling The Keep. Her 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 LA Times Book Prize.

 

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

From the Back Cover

CHARLES BAXTER
ANN BEATTIE
T. C. BOYLE
PETER CAMERON
NICOLE CULLEN
CRAIG DAVIDSON
JOSHUA FERRIS
NELL FREUDENBERGER
DAVID GATES
LAUREN GROFF
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA
O. A. LINDSEY
WILL MACKIN
BRENDAN MATHEWS
MOLLY MCNETT
BENJAMIN NUGENT
JOYCE CAROL OATES
STEPHEN O CONNOR
KAREN RUSSELL
LAURA VAN DEN BERG

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547819226
• ISBN 13: 9780547819228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Egan Jennifer, Pitlor Heidi