The Best American Short Stories 2014 - Couverture rigide

BASS 2013:"Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus BASS 2012:"A typically strong selection ... that should please readers who love the traditional pleasures of storytelling, through voices that are thoroughly contemporary." – Kirkus "The best short stories are small only when measured by the number of pages. Editor Tom Perrotta...assembles a stellar collection of 20 stories that create their own worlds in 20 pages or less." –USA Today BASS 2011:"Children and their parents feature prominently, if predictably, in this year's collection, which includes stories by three Pulitzer Prize-winners. Some of the stronger pieces--such as Sam Lipsyte's "The Dungeon Master," about an endearing young cast of misfit fantasy-game players, and Ricardo Nuila's "Dog Bites," in which a pedantic but loving father helps his son navigate the perils of Little League and life without Mom--tackle the difficulties of adolescence with fresh humor and vigor...Though many of the names here are familiar, this powerful new work re-establishes these authors' command of the form." –Publisher's Weekly "Another stellar selection from an anthology that has sustained high standards for 35 years..Each one of these stories could establish itself as some reader’s favorite."
– Kirkus, STARRED 

"The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).