{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2015","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories  guest editor T. C. Boyle writes  The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.  Boyles choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters  from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom  from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise  which according to Boyle is what the best fiction offers  and there was no shortage of such in this years selections.  Mulling over the question of character likability  series editor Heidi Pitlor asks  Did I like these characters? I very much liked reading their stories  as did T. C. Boyle. Here are characters who are living  breathing people who screw up terribly and want and need and think uneasy thoughts.  T. C. BOYLE  guest editor  has published fifteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN\/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel Worlds End and the Prix Mdicis tranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995  as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing. His most recent book is the novel The Harder They Come.  HEIDI PITLOR  series editor  is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964178362421,"sku":"ByrdShop_054793940X","price":25.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780547939407.jpg?v=1770451872","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2015","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}