The Best American Short Stories by Salman Rushdie

The Best American Short Stories by Salman Rushdie

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly).

"We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor

The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER * ALLEGRA GOODMAN * A. M. HOMES * NICOLE KRAUSS * JONATHAN LETHEM * STEVEN MILLHAUSER * DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN * ALICE MUNRO * GEORGE SAUNDERS * TOBIAS WOLFF * and others

Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Tales; The Moor's Last Sigh; The Ground Under Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Enchantress of Florence; The Enchant Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Over This Line are among his nonfiction works, and he coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Tales 2008. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rushdie, a former president of the PEN American Center, was knighted in 2007 for his contributions to literature.

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ISBN 13	9780618788774
ISBN 10	0618788778
Title	The Best American Short Stories
Author	Salman Rushdie
Series	Best American
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mariner Books
Year published	2008-10-08
Number of pages	384
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