num_pages: 400
description: This year’s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver’s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. “Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life — my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours.” — Barbara Kingsolver
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 2001
titlecomplete: The Best American Short Stories 2001
genres: Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Literature, Collections, Anthologies, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1109
publisher: Mariner Books