The Available Press/PEN Short Story Collection

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These 83 stories were originally chosen by a distinguished panel of writers and then submitted to participating newspaper editors, who were free to publish any works they liked; eventually, nine million readers had access to fine fiction along with the usual journalistic fare. There are very few misses here: the average piece is sharply focused, ironic, and economically written. In Allen Gurganus's ``A Public Denial,'' for example, a man drives across a pond underwater but drowns when, in his excitement trying to get to a telephone, he loses control and lands in a second pond, this time with the windows down. Unlike that experiment, however, this anthology is both bold and successful. David Kirby, English Dept., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345321268
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/12/1985
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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