The best American short stories, 2002 /
The best American short stories, 2002 /
selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Sue Miller with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Sue Miller.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002
- xviii, 375 p. 21 cm.
Along the frontage road / Michael Chabon -- The sugar-tit / Carolyn Cooke -- The red ant house / Ann Cummins -- Seven / Edwidge Danticat -- A house on the plains / E.L. Doctorow -- Puppy / Richard Ford -- The heifer / Melissa Hardy -- Zilkowski's theorem / Karl Iagnemma -- Nobody's business / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Digging / Beth Lordan -- In case we're separated / Alice Mattison -- Billy goats / Jill McCorkle -- Watermelon days / Tom McNeal -- Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels -- Bulldog / Arthur Miller -- The rug / Meg Mullins -- Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma -- Love and hydrogen / Jim Shepard -- Aftermath / Mary Yukari Waters.
This year's Best American Short Stories features a rich mix of voices, from both intriguing new writers and established masters of the form like Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Arthur Miller. The 2002 collection includes stories about everything from illicit love affairs to family, the immigrant experience and badly behaved children - stories varied in subject but unified in their power and humanity. In the words of this year's guest editor, the best-selling author Sue Miller, "The American short story today [is] healthy and strong . . . These stories arrived in the nick of time . . . to teach me once more what we read fiction for."
618131736
American fiction
Canadian fiction
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS 648.S5 / .B464 2002
Along the frontage road / Michael Chabon -- The sugar-tit / Carolyn Cooke -- The red ant house / Ann Cummins -- Seven / Edwidge Danticat -- A house on the plains / E.L. Doctorow -- Puppy / Richard Ford -- The heifer / Melissa Hardy -- Zilkowski's theorem / Karl Iagnemma -- Nobody's business / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Digging / Beth Lordan -- In case we're separated / Alice Mattison -- Billy goats / Jill McCorkle -- Watermelon days / Tom McNeal -- Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels -- Bulldog / Arthur Miller -- The rug / Meg Mullins -- Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma -- Love and hydrogen / Jim Shepard -- Aftermath / Mary Yukari Waters.
This year's Best American Short Stories features a rich mix of voices, from both intriguing new writers and established masters of the form like Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Arthur Miller. The 2002 collection includes stories about everything from illicit love affairs to family, the immigrant experience and badly behaved children - stories varied in subject but unified in their power and humanity. In the words of this year's guest editor, the best-selling author Sue Miller, "The American short story today [is] healthy and strong . . . These stories arrived in the nick of time . . . to teach me once more what we read fiction for."
618131736
American fiction
Canadian fiction
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS 648.S5 / .B464 2002
