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Review ------ "Confrontational and at times confounding, these are stories to get lost in, then gratefully chart a path homeward." --Kirkus Reviews Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Inside Flap -------------------- In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” Mulling over the question of character likability, series editor Heidi Pitlor asks, “Did I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories, as did T. C. Boyle.” Here are characters who “are living, breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts.” Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Back Cover ------------------- The Best American Series® MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN JUSTIN BIGOS KEVIN CANTY DIANE COOK JULIA ELLIOTT LOUISE ERDRICH BEN FOWLKES ARNA BONTEMPS HEMENWAY DENIS JOHNSON SARAH KOKERNOT VICTOR LODATO COLUM MCCANN ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN THOMAS MCGUANE MAILE MELOY SHOBHA RAO JOAN SILBER ARIA BETH SLOSS LAURA LEE SMITH JESS WALTER Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- T.C. BOYLE is the accled author of World’s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award) and Drop City (finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller) among many others. His recent short story collections include Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories. His short stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s. 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. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )

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