This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and
perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent
array" Library Journal of voices both new and recognized.With
Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of
substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have
come to expect" Publishers Weekly. "We all live in and with and
by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to
tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of
our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger
subject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor The Best
American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER - ALLEGRA
GOODMAN - A. M. HOMES - NICOLE KRAUSS - JONATHAN LETHEM - STEVEN
MILLHAUSER - DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN - ALICE MUNRO - GEORGE SAUNDERS -
TOBIAS WOLFF - and others
目錄:
Foreword ix
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
T. C. BOYLE. Admiral
from Harper''s Magazine
KEVIN BROCKMEIER. The YearofSilence
from Ecotone
KAREN BROWN. Galatea
from Crazyhorse
KATIE CHASE. Man and Wife
from The Missouri Review
DANIELLE EVANS. Virgins
from The Paris Review
ALLEGRA GOODMAN. Closely Held
from Ploughshares
a. M. HOMES. May We Be Forgiven
from Granta
NICOLE KRAUSS. From theDesk ofDaniel Varsky
from Harper''s Magazine
JONATHAN LETHEM. The King of Sentences
from The New Yorker
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