The Best American Short Stories 2022

Name: The Best American Short Stories 2022
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
ISBN: 9780063274549

Author: Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor

Series: Best American

Narrator: Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cherise Boothe, Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 13 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 11/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Collections & Anthologies

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was a Today book club selection and received a California Book Award. He lives in San Francisco.

About Heidi Pitlor

Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Radwa

A really solid anthology. brief reviews of all the stories: - A Ravishing Sun by Leslie Blanco: wonderful and heartbreaking. a story of a cuban woman who's starting over in so many ways and how the ptsd of an accident affects her. I saw myself in her and I was scared than I was comforted. 5 stars. (ap......more

Goodreads review by Johnathan

I have not finished reading this book, nor do I think I will probably finish it in the future. It has very firmly cemented my dislike for modern literary fiction. While the stories are all certainly well written, and serve as good examples of craft (for which reason I will keep this on my shelf for......more

Goodreads review by BOOKSTHATSTAY

Do you also love it when suddenly the book starts speaking to you and you find the characters in a similar frame of mind as yours, facing the same dilemmas as you, and just then you come across a quote that somehow addresses your questions and inner battles, and then you aggressively keep underlinin......more

Goodreads review by Abigail

I would, by & large, agree that these are the best stories. Several of these will stick with me for years.......more