The Best American Short Stories (Best American Short Stories) (Best American Series (R)) (Best American)

Name: The Best American Short Stories
Rating: 3.00 (1 reviews)

Stephen King (Editor) and Heidi Pitlor

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The Best American Short Stories (Best American Short Stories) (Best American Series (R)) (Best American)

Stephen King (Editor) and Heidi Pitlor

1 rating • 1 review • 4 shelved

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ISBN10 0618713484
ISBN13 9780618713486
Publish Date 10 October 2007
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)

Edition 2007 ed.
Format Paperback
Pages 448
Language English

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jamiereadthis

Written on Sep 1, 2009

4.5 stars. Usually anthologies are a bit all over the place, but this one just kept building and building. I have a feeling if I had 100 stories, these would have been the twenty most memorable.

I picked it up for Nicole Krauss, “From the Desk of Daniel Varsky,” and Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” but would be hard pressed to even name a favorite now, they were all that good.

(I might have even been tempted to give it five stars, had I not just started reading Fitzgerald again. Damn you Fitzgerald and the way you make me lose faith in all other writing.)