The Best American Short Stories 2011: The Best American Series [Kindle Edition]

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"In this anthology series celebrating American short fiction annually since 1915, annually another renowned writer chooses the best 20 stories of these year...Brooks does the honors impressively."
--Booklist
"Though many with the names here are familiar, this powerful new work re-establishes these authors' command of the form."
--Publishers Weekly "Another stellar selection from an anthology that has sustained high standards for 35 years..Each considered one of these stories could establish itself as some reader’s favorite."
--Kirkus, starred

In her introduction to The Most Effective American Short Stories 2011, Geraldine Brooks draws the comparison from the well-told joke and a good short story. She writes, “Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft strokes. There’s generally a setup, a reveal, a reversal, along with a release . . . In the joke and inside short story, a symptom and end are precisely anchored tent poles, and what lies between must pull so taut it twangs.”

The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here are brimming with deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often, like good jokes, surprising humor. Richard Powers’s “To the Measures Fall” is really a comic meditation about the uses of literature inside the course of a life. In the satirical “The Sleep,” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter like a kind of escape—while in Steve Millhauser’s imagined town the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in “The Phantoms.” Allegra Goodman’s spare but beautiful “La Vita Nuova” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint around her wedding dress as being a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in their story of a wealthy child who just isn't entirely relaxed using what his life has become. 

As Brooks pursued these richly imagined and varied landscapes she found out that “it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends to get a while, then launch out among interesting strangers.”






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