The Best American Short Stories 2016, 9780544582897
Paperback
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction.

The Best American Short Stories 2016

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    4 October 2016

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Summary

“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 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings “one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780544582897
ISBN-10:0544582896
Series:Best American
Author:Heidi Pitlor, Junot Díaz
Publisher:Mariner Books
Imprint:Mariner Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Edition:2016th
Release Date:4 October 2016
Weight:295g
Dimensions:206mm x 137mm x 23mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz’s “rah-rah” (his term) rallying cry for the form…

“This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz’s “rah-rah” (his term) rallying cry for the form… Count on them to transport you.” –USA Today “Its strongest installment yet… Díaz’s compilation is the most diverse and inclusive entry to date of any of the major annual story collections… Essential for every student of the short story form.” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “This year’s collection brings together fine stories by famous fiction writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell… [while] a great deal of the magic is generated by the appearance of less familiar names… Each of these outstanding stories is, as Diaz observes, a chance to listen ‘to some other lone voice struggling to be heard against the great silence.’” The National Book Review

About The Author

Heidi Pitlor

JUNOT DÍAZ is the author of Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

HEIDI PITLOR is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

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