Best American Short Stories 2002
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780613925235 (0613925238)
Publish date: October 1st 2002
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Series: The Best American Short Stories
There are some good ones here - "Nobody's Business" (Jhumpa Lahiri), "A House On the Plains" (E.L. Doctorow), "Zilkowski's Theorem" (Karl Iagnemma), "Nachman From Los Angeles" (Leonard Michaels), and "Love and Hydrogen" (Jim Shepard). But there are also a few that just didn't impress me.
Very nice collection. My favorite was Richard Ford's "Puppy," followed by a clamoring of runners-up like "The Rug," "Along the Frontage Road," "Nachman from Los Angeles," etc etc. I didn't like Sue Miller's introduction at all, which begins "I was forced to write short stories by the exigencies of m...
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