100 years of The best American short stories One hundred years of The best American short stories Moore, Lorrie 1957- editora Pitlor, Heidi coeditora text short story mau 2015 monographic eng spa
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xxi, 723 p. ; 24 cm. Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time -- 1915-1920. The gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- 1920-1930. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson; My old man / Ernest Hemingway; Haircut / Ring Lardner -- 1930-1940. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; The cracked looking-glass / Katherine Anne Porter; That will be fine / William Faulkner -- 1940-1950. Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale; The whole world knows / Eudora Welty; The enormous radio / John Cheever -- 1950-1960. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- 1960-1970. Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; Pigeon feathers / John Updike; Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver; By the river / Joyce Carol Oates -- 1970-1980. The school / Donald Barthelme; The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- 1980-1990. Friends / Grace Paley; Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter; Lawns / Mona Simpson; Communist / Richard Ford; Helping / Robert Stone; Displacement / David Wong Louie -- 1990-2000. Friend of my youth / Alice Munro; The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill; Xuela / Jamaica Kincaid; If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma; Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz -- 2000-2010. The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri; Brownies / ZZ Packer; What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie; Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones; Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy; Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff -- 2010-2015. What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander; Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka; The semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders; At the round Earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff. edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories. Short stories, American American fiction 20th century American fiction 21st century Cuentos americanos Cuentos estadounidenses Colecciones Cuentos de ciencia ficción estadounidenses Colecciones PS 648 O58 2015 813 Gay old dog Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 Brothers Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 My old man Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 Haircut Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 Babylon revisited Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Cracked looking-glass Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 That will be fine Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Those are as brothers Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 Whole world knows Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 Enormous radio Cheever, John. I stand here ironing Olsen, Tillie. Sonny's blues Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 Conversion of the Jews Roth, Philip. Everything that rises must converge O'Connor, Flannery. Pigeon feathers Updike, John. Will you please be quiet, please? Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 By the river Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- School Barthelme, Donald. Living end Conventional wisdom Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995 Friends Paley, Grace. Harmony of the world Baxter, Charles, 1947- Lawns Simpson, Mona. Communist Ford, Richard, 1944- Helping Stone, Robert, 1937-2015 Displacement Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018 Friend of my youth Munro, Alice, 1931- Girl on the plane Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Xuela Kincaid, Jamaica. If you sing like that for me Sharma, Akhil, 1971- Fiesta, 1980 Díaz, Junot, 1968- Third and final continent Lahiri, Jhumpa. Brownies Packer, ZZ. What you pawn I will redeem Alexie, Sherman, 1966- Old boys, old girls Jones, Edward P. Refresh, refresh Percy, Benjamin. Awaiting orders Wolff, Tobias, 1945- What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank Englander, Nathan. Diem perdidi Otsuka, Julie, 1962- Semplica-girl diaries Saunders, George, 1958- At the round Earth's imagined corners Groff, Lauren. Best American series 9780547485850 0547485859 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015506942-s.html YDXCP 160202 20230411085644.0 eng