The Best American Short Stories

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.

Author: Richard Russo, Heidi Pitlor
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/28/2010
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780547055329

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 12/06/2010

About the Author
Russo, Richard: - RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven novels, a collection of short stories, and numerous screenplays. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls in 2002.Russo, Richard: - RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven novels, a collection of short stories, and numerous screenplays. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls in 2002.Pitlor, Heidi: - HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.