The Best American Short Stories 2009 - Rilegato

2008:

"How good Rushdie was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question —what is an American story?— is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."--USA Today

2007:

"Always a sure bet for gripping, emotionally challenging reading"--San Diego Union-Tribune

"At a story a night, ther's enough variety and talent in the 20 selections here to keep readers entertained nearly three weeks." --USA Today

Monitor Pick, Christian Science Monitor

"The book reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect from the series." -- Publishers Weekly

"King has harvested a bumper crop." -- Kirkus

"This magnificent array should reawakeninterest intrest in he American short story" --Library Journal

Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of the novels The Almost Moon andThe Lovely Bones, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold. The film adaptation ofThe Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, is scheduled for release in 2009.