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| American Short Story Masterpieces | 
 enlarge | Creators: Raymond Carver, Tom Jenks
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 42396
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0440204232
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0108
EAN: 9780440204237
ASIN: 0440204232
Publication Date: April 2, 1989
Release Date: April 2, 1989
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Product Description
America's most exciting and important writers are represented in this wonderfully rich collection of contemporary classics that date from the 1950s through the 1980s. Includes selections of James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth and more. HC: Delacorte.
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 Best Bang for the Buck May 11, 2004
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
Perhaps I am biased by nostalgia since this was the text used way back in my high school creative writing class, but this sublime anthology is pound for pound the best collection of short fiction around. There are other excellent collections -- Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction comes to mind -- but ASS masterpieces (as we called it back then) has a splendid mix of short story classics in addition to an absurd number of gems. On the all-time classic side, there is "Sonny's Blues," "Rock Springs," "Where are you Going, Where Have you Been?", "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "The Conversion of the Jews," and "The Liar" just to name a few. It's already a terrific list; how many other collections have all these under one roof? But then there are a whole host of lesser-known stories that push this sucker over the top. "1/3, 1/3, 1/3," "A Poetics for Bullies," "The Ledge," "The Heavenly Animal" ... all first-rate stories. And it's only $8.00! Forget Best American Short Stories of the Century. Forget the Norton Anthology. If you can only have one fiction anthology on your shelf, this should be the one.
Contains some of the best short stories I have ever read. May 21, 2003
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I read "Midair" standing up in the bookstore. This book contains some true classics in short story writing.
 Great book May 4, 2000
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book will boggle your mind. The words used to describe the situations in the short stories. There are more that many excellent stories in this book. I find it more enjoyable that a single novel. Advanced school programs use this as a learning experience. It is a 4 star book.
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