The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Paperback

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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Paperback

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Paperback

by Joyce Carol Oates , Christopher R. Beha
$19.99
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Book Overview

In The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates gathers together the very best work by contemporary American short-story writers into a definitive, beautiful, must-have anthology.

Includes stories by:

  • Ann Beattie
  • Michael Chabon
  • Edwidge Danticat
  • Lydia Davis
  • Deborah Eisenberg
  • Edward P. Jones
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Lorrie Moore
  • Tim O'Brien
  • George Saunders
  • John Updike
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Edmund White
  • Tobias Wolff

Back Jacket

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.
ISBN9780061661587
Author Joyce Carol Oates , Christopher R. Beha
PublisherEcco Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages784
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to "a master of the thriller and noir literary genre."

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