The Best American Short Stories [Audiobook] download free by T C Boyle
- Listen audiobook: The Best American Short Stories
- Author: T C Boyle
- Release date: 2015/11/9
- Publisher: MARINER BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780547939414
- Rating: 9.43 of 10
- Votes: 394
- Review by: Leroy Bryson
- Review rating: 7.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/8
- Duration: 5H12M13S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, WAV, MPC, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC, MP3, TTA (compression ZIP, RAR, RPM, CBR, ALZ, TBZ)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M17S (7.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, 'The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.' Boyle's choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is 'what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year's selections.' Mulling over the question of character likability, series editor Heidi Pitlor asks, 'Did I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories, as did T. C. Boyle.' Here are characters who 'are living, breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts.' T. C. BOYLE, guest editor, has published fifteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel World's End and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing. His most recent book is the novel The Harder They Come. HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Anthologies (non-poetry), Short Story Books
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.25 USD
- Dimensions: 137x208x30mm
- Weight: 340g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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