Title:
The best American short stories, 2012 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Tom Perrotta with Heidi Pitlor.
ISBN:
9780547242101
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Physical Description:
xix, 356 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- The last speaker of the language / Carol Anshaw -- Pilgrim life / Taylor Antrim -- What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander -- The other place / Mary Gaitskill -- North country / Roxane Gay -- Paramour / Jennifer Haigh -- Navigators / Mike Meginnis -- Miracle polish / Steven Millhauser -- Axis / Alice Munro -- Volcano / Lawrence Osborne -- Diem Perdidi / Julie Otsuka -- Honeydew / Edith Pearlman -- Occupational hazard / Angela Pneuman -- Beautiful monsters / Eric Puchner -- Tenth of December / George Saunders -- The sex lives of African girls / Taiye Selasi -- Alive / Sharon Solwitz -- M & M world / Kate Walbert -- Anything helps / Jess Walter -- What's important is feeling / Adam Wilson -- Contributor's notes -- Other distinguished stories of 2011 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Summary:
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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OCLC Number:
ocn811249742
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