The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

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.

Contents:

The toughest Indian in the world by Sherman Alexie

Lobster night by Russell Banks

The hermit's story by Rick Bass

1-900 by Richard Bausch

Poor devil by Charles Baxter

Lavande by Ann Beattie

O. by Aimee Bender

Mercy by Pinckney Benedict

The love of my life by T.C. Boyle

The identity club by Richard Burgin

The son of the wolfman by Michael Chabon

Night women by Edwidge Danticat

Television by Lydia Davis

Aurora by Junot Díaz

A house on the Plains by E.L. Doctorow

Death of the right fielder by Stuart Dybek

The girl who left her sock on the floor by Deborah Eisenberg

Disaster stamps of Pluto by Louise Erdrich

Reunion by Richard Ford

Rêve haitien by Ben Fountain

The girl on the plane by Mary Gaitskill

The paperhanger by William Gay

City visit by Adam Haslett

To those of you who missed your connecting flights out of O'Hare by Amy Hempel

Emergency by Denis Johnson

Double exposure by Greg Johnson

Old boys, old girls by Edward P. Jones

Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine by Matthew Klam

Baboons by Sheila Kohler

Once in a lifetime by Jhumpa Lahiri

Some terpsichore by Elizabeth McCracken

Cowboy by Thomas McGuane

Sault Ste. Marie by David Means

Ranch girl by Maile Meloy

The new automaton theater by Steven Millhauser

Paper losses by Lorrie Moore

Stitches by Antonya Nelson

Land. ll by Joyce Carol Oates

On the rainy river by Tim O'Brien

The escort by Chuck Palahniuk

People in hell just want a drink of water by Annie Proulx

The red bow by George Saunders

Leslie and Sam by Douglas Unger

The brown chest by John Updike

Incarnations of burned children by David Foster Wallace

Cinnamon skin by Edmund White

Who invented the jump shot by John Edgar Wideman

Bullet in the brain by Tobias Wol

• Author
• Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher R. Beha, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Richard Burgin, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Lydia Davis, Junot Díaz, E.L. Doctorow, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Richard Ford, Ben Fountain, Mary Gaitskill, William Gay, Adam Haslett, Amy Hempel, Denis Johnson, Greg Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Matthew Klam, Russell Banks, Sheila Kohler, Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth McCracken, Thomas McGuane, David Means, Maile Meloy, Steven Millhauser, Lorrie Moore, Antonya Nelson, Rick Bass, Tim O'Brien, Chuck Palahniuk, Annie Proulx, George Saunders, Douglas Unger, John Updike, David Foster Wallace, Edmund White, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Aimee Bender, Pinckney Benedict

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 784

• Publisher
• Ecco

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-166158-7

• EAN
• 9780061661587

• Genres
• fiction, anthologies, literature, textbooks, teaching, novels

• Release date
• 2008