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The best American short stories 2016
Title:
The best American short stories 2016
ISBN:
9780544582750

9780544582897
Physical Description:
xx, 311 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Apollo / Ravalushan / Garments / Wonders of the shore / The bears / The great silence / The flower / The Letician Age / For the god of love, for the love of god / The suitcase / Treasure state / Pat + Sam / Cold little bird / The politics of the quotidian / Bridge / The prospectors / On this side / Gifted / Secret stream / Williamsburg Bridge
Summary:
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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