Sports Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556524846 ISBN 13: 9781556524844

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2003

Synopsis

The energy and drama of the sports arena is unsurpassed as inspiration for the short story, and here, in these 24 stories from some of the world’s great writers, is all of the bone-crunching action, the devious strategy, the devastating defeats, and the high-soaring victories of some of the best-loved sports of our time. The lineup includes Pulitzer Prize winners E. Annie Proulx, John Cheever, Howard Nemerov, and Paul Horgan, as well as favorites such as Joyce Carol Oates, André Dubus, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jeffrey Archer. Tales of baseball, golf, car racing, horse racing, swimming, hunting, and chess portray themes of love, loss, danger, and ambition as they express the passion for sport in all its forms. Watch an Ecuadorian bullfight turn into a bloodbath in Jack London’s “Madness of John Harned,” and learn as Simon Templar, alias “the Saint,” teaches some crooks a lesson in a few hands of poker in Leslie Charteris’s “Mug’s Game.” Both dedicated sports enthusiasts and lovers of short fiction will find Sports Best Short Stories a riveting experience.

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About the Author

Paul D. Staudohar is the editor of six other collections of sports short stories including Baseball's Best Short Stories, Boxing's Best Short Stories, Fishing's Best Short Stories, Football's Best Short Stories, Golf's Best Short Stories, and Hunting's Best Short Stories. He is a professor of business administration at California State University at Hayward. He lives in Lafayette, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556524846
• ISBN 13: 9781556524844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Staudohar Paul D.