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The best american short stories 2010. / Richard Russo editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The best american series, 2010Publication details: Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, 2010.Edition: Richard RussoDescription: 421 p. : 21 cmISBN:
  • 0547055323
  • 9780547055329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.08
LOC classification:
  • PS 648 B561 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
ntroduction / Bill Buford -- Appointment in Istanbul / Henry Alford -- Looking for Judas / Tom Bissell -- Down & out in Fresno and San Francisco / Colby Buzzell -- The undead travel / Avi Davis -- The hadza / Michael Finkel -- Travels in Siberia / Ian Frazier -- Batman returns / Ted Genoways -- A house is a machine to live in / J. C. Hallman -- Strange stones / Peter Hessler -- The lovely stones / Christopher Hitchens -- Take in the state fair / Garrison Keillor -- Walking : an essay on writing / Peter LaSalle -- In defense of tourism / Peter Jon Lindberg -- Where donkeys deliver / Susan Orlean -- The ghost course / David Owen -- The ponzi state / George Packer -- Lost in the Amazon / Matthew Power -- Me, myself, and ribeye / Steven Rinella -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- The filthy, fecund secret of Emilia-Romagna / Patrick Symmes -- Take nothing, leave nothing / Simon Winchester.
Summary: Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.
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ntroduction / Bill Buford -- Appointment in Istanbul / Henry Alford -- Looking for Judas / Tom Bissell -- Down & out in Fresno and San Francisco / Colby Buzzell -- The undead travel / Avi Davis -- The hadza / Michael Finkel -- Travels in Siberia / Ian Frazier -- Batman returns / Ted Genoways -- A house is a machine to live in / J. C. Hallman -- Strange stones / Peter Hessler -- The lovely stones / Christopher Hitchens -- Take in the state fair / Garrison Keillor -- Walking : an essay on writing / Peter LaSalle -- In defense of tourism / Peter Jon Lindberg -- Where donkeys deliver / Susan Orlean -- The ghost course / David Owen -- The ponzi state / George Packer -- Lost in the Amazon / Matthew Power -- Me, myself, and ribeye / Steven Rinella -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- The filthy, fecund secret of Emilia-Romagna / Patrick Symmes -- Take nothing, leave nothing / Simon Winchester.

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.

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