Heidi Pitlor
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel that wrestles with the ways that women are hamstrung by maternal demands and social expectations, showing the impossibility of doing it all, as a single mother is hired to ghostwrite a memoir for an aspiring politician and it takes both of them combined to be the ideal successful woman"--
Series
Best American volume 2009
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provactive literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, enduring edition of the oldest and best selling Best American....
Series
Best American volume 2021
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Series
Best American volume 2015
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Series
Best American volume 2023
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty masterfully crafted short stories" by T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and more: "Outstanding and well worth the read." —Booklist (starred review)
"To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other...
"To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other...
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