The Best American Short Stories 2012: Selected from U.s. and Canadian Magazines

By Heidi Pitlor, Eric Puchner, Alice Munro, et al.

Book Overview

The Best American Series? 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547242093
• ISBN13: 9780547242095
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional book for exceptional price

I love the short story format. I think it more challenging for the author to fashion his characters, creative some type of conflict or drama, and then wrap the whole thing in a limited time. The pitfalls can be great: we may not relate to the characters, we may not fully invest ourselves in the conflict, and we may want to know more, more, more about the people we just got interested in. But a short, concise, well written piece of prose is very satisfying for the soul. This series of Best American Short Stories continues to scan thousands of submissions to come up with the very, very best. Cannot recommend highly enough.