The Best American Short Stories 2016 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0544582756 ISBN 13: 9780544582750

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

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“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.  

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BASS 2014: USA Today, NYTBR Open Book column “Intelligently chosen; essential for students and aspiring writers of fiction as a kind of state-of-the-art (or at least state-of-the-trend) snapshot, with a few standouts.”—Kirkus “The American and Canadian authors crisscross themes of anxiety, betrayal, homelessness and grief. They test the limits of friendship and romantic love; and then blow right through ’em...they are emotional cutters, and they leave behind a web of fine, intricate scars at which I can only marvel.”—NY Daily News Book Blog Page Views   BASS 2013: “Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form.”—Kirkus  

"Its strongest installment yet... Díaz’s compilation is the most diverse and inclusive entry to date of any of the major annual story collections... Essential for every student of the short story form." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "This year’s collection brings together fine stories by famous fiction writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell... [while] a great deal of the magic is generated by the appearance of less familiar names... Each of these outstanding stories is, as Diaz observes, a chance to listen 'to some other lone voice struggling to be heard against the great silence.'” —The National Book Review

"Its strongest installment yet... Díaz’s compilation is the most diverse and inclusive entry to date of any of the major annual story collections... Essential for every student of the short story form." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review  

"This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz’s “rah-rah” (his term) rallying cry for the form... Count on them to transport you." —USA Today "Its strongest installment yet... Díaz’s compilation is the most diverse and inclusive entry to date of any of the major annual story collections... Essential for every student of the short story form." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "This year’s collection brings together fine stories by famous fiction writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell... [while] a great deal of the magic is generated by the appearance of less familiar names... Each of these outstanding stories is, as Diaz observes, a chance to listen 'to some other lone voice struggling to be heard against the great silence.'” —The National Book Review

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“If the novel is our culture’s favored literary form, upon which we heap all our desiccated literary laurels, if the novel is, say our Jaime Lannister, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little brother, the perennial underdog. But what an underdog,” writes Junot Díaz in his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2016.
 
From a Nigerian boy’s friendship with his family’s former houseboy to a sweatshop girl’s experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in the academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to “break hearts bones vanities and cages.”
 
Ten years into her role as series editor, Heidi Pitlor confides, “A great pleasure of my job is the rush that comes with discovery...I’m reading a new story and not checking how long it is or what time I have to pick up the kids. I’m reading and feeling and thinking, and, if I’m lucky, laughing too. I’m not working at all. A great story has that power: it removes you from your life. It lifts you away from a while. Junot Díaz and I found much to discover this year.”

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544582756
• ISBN 13: 9780544582750
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 311