Best new American voices 2001
By: guest editor Charles Baxter ; series editors John Kulka and Natalie Danford
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780156010658
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction; Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: "After eighteen years of marriage, a man wakes up one morning to find his wife standing in the bedroom doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Alone in their Copenhagen apartment, he tries to make sense of his marriage and his life. Memories of driving a cab, quiet walks in the snow, and intense sojourns in Paris and New York pass through his mind in fleeting visual images. The more he thinks of his wife, however, the more mysterious she becomes to him.

Slowly he realizes that two people can live together for years without ever really knowing each other, and that the most important encounters in life are dictated by chance, not design."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A harvest original."
Table of contents: title: Preface --; title: Introduction  -- by Charles Baxter; title: Pilgrims  -- by Julie Orringer; title: Darkening of the world  -- by Timothy A. Westmoreland; title: Superassassin  -- by Lysley A. Tenorio; title: Villa of the veiled lady  -- by Christina Milletti; title: Intervention  -- by Erin Flanagan; title: Our lady of the height  -- by Ha-yun Jung; title: Oh, Albany, my love  -- by Jeb Livingood; title: Beheadings  -- by Kira Salak; title: Louisiana loses its cricket hum  -- by Amanda Davis; title: Of cabbages  -- by Zoey Byrd; title: The sharp light of trespassers  -- by Whitney Davis; title: Bats  -- by Lidija S. Canovic; title: Loss  -- by Roompa Bhattacharyya -- Before Las Blancas / -- by Patrick Ryan; title: Home, James, and don't spare the horses  -- by Antoine Wilson; title: We are cartographers  -- by Susanna Daniel; title: The mean  -- by Matthew Pitt; title: Contributors --; title: Participants.