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The Best American Short Stories 2000 (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
The Best American Short Stories 2000 - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:E. L. Doctorow (Editor) Still the only anthology shaped each year by a different guest editor -- always a preeminent master of the form -- THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES is the essential yearbook of the American literary scene. Here are the most talked about short stories of the year alongside undiscovered gems. In his introduction, guest editor E. L. Doctorow writes,... more » "Here is the felt life conferred by the gifted storyteller . . . who always raises two voices into the lonely universe, the character's and the writer's own." Doctorow has chosen a compelling variety of voices to usher in the new millennium, attesting to the astonishing range of human experience our best writers evoke.
Stories include:
Introduction / E.L. Doctorow
Call if you need me/ Raymond Carver, read by Peter Kovner
Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport, read by the author
He's at the office / Alan Gurganus, read by the author Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux, read by the author
Third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri, read by Alvin Epstein
Pet fly / Walter Mosley, read by Charles Parnell
Brownies / ZZ Packer, read by the author
People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx, read by Elizabeth Bulkey
Read by the authors and other guest artists. Unabridged: 4 audiocassettes, 5.5 hours« less