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The Best American Short Stories 2022
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humour with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
The Best American Short Stories 2022 showcases an array of voices and styles, offering a compelling mix of contemporary narratives that capture the essence and diversity of modern short fiction.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780358664710
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 December 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Mariner Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 313g
Pages: 352
About the Author
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, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation. Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant , a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco.
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