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The Best American short stories, 1999 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.Description: xxviii, 410 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0395926831
  • 9780395926833
  • 039592684X
  • 9780395926840
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Best American short stories, 1999.DDC classification:
  • 808.83
LOC classification:
  • PS648.S5 B4 1999
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / Amy Tan -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot D�iaz -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni -- Kansas / Stephen Dobyns -- The tumblers / Nathan Englander -- The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux -- The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy -- The 5:22 / George Harrar -- Islands / A. Hemon -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston -- In the kindergarten / Ha Jin -- Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits -- Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan -- Africans / Sheilia Kohler -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Real estate / Lorrie Moore -- Save the reaper / Alice Munro -- The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx -- The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer -- The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay -- The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1998 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Summary: The 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 periodicals. 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.
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Foreword -- Introduction / Amy Tan -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot D�iaz -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni -- Kansas / Stephen Dobyns -- The tumblers / Nathan Englander -- The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux -- The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy -- The 5:22 / George Harrar -- Islands / A. Hemon -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston -- In the kindergarten / Ha Jin -- Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits -- Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan -- Africans / Sheilia Kohler -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Real estate / Lorrie Moore -- Save the reaper / Alice Munro -- The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx -- The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer -- The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay -- The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1998 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.

The 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 periodicals. 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.

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