The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha

Dozens of today's leading American story writers, gathered by a master of the form.

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Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha collect stories by leading contemporary American writers, among them Ann Beattie, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Lydia Davis, Junot Díaz, Louise Erdrich, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders. The anthology surveys the American short story from the late twentieth century into the twenty-first.

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In The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates gathers together the very best work by contemporary American short-story writers into a definitive, beautiful, must-have anthology.Includes stories by: Ann BeattieMichael ChabonEdwidge DanticatLydia DavisDeborah EisenbergEdward P. JonesJhumpa LahiriLorrie MooreTim O'BrienGeorge SaundersJohn UpdikeDavid Foster WallaceEdmund WhiteTobias Wolff

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