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ISBN-10: 0804173540
ISBN-13: 9780804173544
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 07/21/2015
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.20" W, 1.40" H

New American Stories

Edited byBen Marcus

Paperback

Price: $17.95

Overview

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

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Praise for Ben Marcus:

"Marcus is a writer of prodigious talent. –New York Times Book Review

"Ben Marcus is the rarest kind of writer: a necessary one. It's become impossible to imagine the literary world–the world itself–without his daring, mind-bending and heartbreaking writing."–Jonathan Safran Foer

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Details

ISBN-10: 0804173540
ISBN-13: 9780804173544
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 07/21/2015
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.20" W, 1.40" H
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