{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2004-the-best-american-series","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2004 (The Best American Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction.  For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works.  That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field.  The unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected-and most popular-of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 is an electric and enthralling gathering of well-known voices and talented up-and-comers.  Here are stories that probe the biggest issues ambition, gender, Romance, war.  Here are funny and touching and striking tales of a Spokane Indian, the estranged wife of an Iranian immigrant, and American tutor in Bombay.  In her introduction, Lorrie Moore writes, \"The stories collected here impressed me with their depth of knowledge and feeling of character, settings, and situation...They spoke with amused intelligence, compassion, and dispassion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284510458034,"sku":"Fiction","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/7274\/0786\/files\/9780618197354.jpg?v=1775848353","url":"https:\/\/thebookstoreinpinecity.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2004-the-best-american-series","provider":"The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}