In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, âThe 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.â
Boyleâs 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 âwhat the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this yearâs selections.â
Mulling over the question of character likability, series editor Heidi Pitlor asks, âDid I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories, as did T. C. Boyle.â Here are characters who âare living, breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts.â
T. C. BOYLE, guest editor, has published fifteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel Worldâs End and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing. His most recent book is the novel The Harder They Come.
HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.
Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Graphic Novels
- Literary
- Graphic Novels
Publisher : Mariner Books
Author : Boyle, T C
Language : English
Edition : 2015 ed.
Published :2015-10-06
Number Of Pages : 388
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0547939418
ISBN-13 : 9780547939414
Item weight : 0.8 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 5.5 in x 8.6 in
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