The Best American Seriesยฎ First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor,
The Best American Short Stories 2016: ss
โ Scribed by Junot Dรญaz
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;[s.n.]
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
**"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." โ**Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Dรญaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.
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