20 under 40
Subtitle: stories from the New Yorker
By: edited by Deborah Treisman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780374532871
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Other titles: Twenty under forty; Stories from the New Yorker; New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Description: A collection of twenty stories by North American writers under the age of forty who the editors of the New Yorker felt were, or soon would be, standouts in contemporary fiction.
Table of contents: title: Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; title: The warm fuzzies / Chris Adrian; title: Second Lives / Daniel Alarcón; title: The train of their departure / David Bezmozgis; title: The Erlking / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; title: The pilot / Joshua Ferris; title: Here we aren't, so quickly / Jonathan Safran Foer; title: An arranged marriage / Nell Freudenberger; title: The entire northern side was covered with fire / Rivka Galchen; title: The young painters / Nicole Krauss; title: The science of flight / Yiyun Li; title: An honest exit / Dinaw Mengestu; title: What you do out here, when you're alone / Philipp Meyer; title: Twins / C. E. Morgan; title: Blue water djinn / Téa Obreht; title: Dayward / ZZ Packer; title: The dredgeman's revelation / Karen Russell; title: The kid / Salvatore Scibona; title: Lenny hearts Eunice / Gary Shteyngart; title: The landlord / Wells Tower.