The Best American Short Stories 2009 - Hardcover

Sebold, Alice; Pitlor, Heidi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618792244 ISBN 13: 9780618792245

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Synopsis

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative 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, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

About this title

About the Author:

Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of the novels The Almost Moon andThe Lovely Bones, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold. The film adaptation ofThe Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, is scheduled for release in 2009.

Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin. Her fiction has been published inPloughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0618792244
• ISBN 13: 9780618792245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347