The Best American Short Stories 2009 - Couverture rigide

2008:

"How good Rushdie was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question —what is an American story?— is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."--USA Today

2007:

"Always a sure bet for gripping, emotionally challenging reading"--San Diego Union-Tribune

"At a story a night, ther's enough variety and talent in the 20 selections here to keep readers entertained nearly three weeks." --USA Today

Monitor Pick, Christian Science Monitor

"The book reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect from the series." -- Publishers Weekly

"King has harvested a bumper crop." -- Kirkus

"This magnificent array should reawakeninterest intrest in he American short story" --Library Journal

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.