The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr audiobook

The Best American Short Stories 2019

Edited by Anthony Doerr, with Heidi Pitlor
Read by various narrators

HarperAudio, HarperAudio 9781328465825

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798212047166

  • ISBN: 9781094063966

  • ISBN: 9781094063973

Runtime: 16.13 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Literary Collections
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Winner of and AudioFile Earphones Award

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. 
 

Read by a full cast including:

Kevin R. Free

Gabra Zackman

Scott Shepherd

Sullivan Jones

Christine Lakin

Brittany Pressley

Zach Villa

Saskia Maarleveld

Ali Ahn

Robin Miles

Roxana Ortega

Wilson Bethel

Robert Petkoff

Jefferson Mays

Dariush Kashani

Megan Tusing

Christopher Ryan Grant

Therese Plummer

Criena House

Emily Woo Zeller

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“This anthology rejoices in its range of subject matter, its emotional complexity, and its depiction of quietly powerful moments.” Shelf Awareness
“A fine celebration of the many guises a short story can take while still doing its essential work.” Kirkus Reviews

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Author

Author Bio: Anthony Doerr

Author Bio: Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize.

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Author Bio: Heidi Pitlor

Author Bio: Heidi Pitlor

Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage. She has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007 and the editorial director of Plympton, a literary studio. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, Ploughshares, and the anthologies It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art and Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Literary Collections
Runtime: 16.13
Audience: Adult
Language: English