The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol; Beha, Christopher R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061661589 ISBN 13: 9780061661587

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2008

Synopsis

A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.

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Title: The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: JoyceCarolOates <>Publisher: HarperPerennial

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Christopher R. Beha has written for the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, and The Believer. The Whole Five Feet, his memoir of a year spent reading the Harvard Classics, will be published in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061661589
• ISBN 13: 9780061661587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784