num_pages: 5
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 KingsolverContents:Barbara Kingslover: IntroductionRick Bass: FiremanClaire Davis: Labors of the HeartElizabeth Graver: The Mourning DoorHa Jin: After Cowboy Chicken Came to TownRick Moody: BoysAlice Munro: Post and BeamPeter Orner: The RaftKatherine Shonk: My Mothers GardenDorothy West: My Baby
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 2001
titlecomplete: The Best American Short Stories 2001
genres: Anthologies, Collections, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1109
publisher: Mariner Books