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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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9 released booksThe Best American Short Stories is a 9-book series first released in 2007 with contributions by Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, and Julie Otsuka.
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As expected in such an expansive collection, the stories were hit or miss for me. Interesting to read some of the history of short story writing in America along with each decade's stories. Fiction seems to be getting better and better if this collection is an accurate representation.