The Best American Short Stories 2001

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"Always lives up to its title." — Publishers Weekly
"Expect to be entertained, provoked, astonished." — San Diego Tribune
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the
premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfic-
tion. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of peri-
odicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred and twenty outstanding
works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces
by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or
her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series
the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
A wonderfully diverse collection, this year's Best American Short Stories
travels from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from the Jersey shore to Wales,
considering the biggest issues: love, war, health, success. Edited by the crit-
ically acclaimed, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, The Best American... Tovább

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"Always lives up to its title." — Publishers Weekly
"Expect to be entertained, provoked, astonished." — San Diego Tribune
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the
premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfic-
tion. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of peri-
odicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred and twenty outstanding
works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces
by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or
her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series
the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
A wonderfully diverse collection, this year's Best American Short Stories
travels from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from the Jersey shore to Wales,
considering the biggest issues: love, war, health, success. Edited by the crit-
ically acclaimed, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, The Best American
Short Stories 2001 includes selections by Rick Moody, Ha Jin, Alice
Munro, John Updike, and others. Highlighting exciting new voices as
well as established masters of the form, this year's collection is a testa-
ment to the good health of contemporary short fiction in this country.
Barbara Kingsolver s novels include The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams,
Pigs in Heaven (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction),
The Poisonwood Bible (a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the
Pulitzer Prize and an Oprah's Book Club selection), and Prodigal Summer.
Kingsolver lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Katrina Kenison has been the series editor of The Best American Short
Stories since 1990. Vissza