The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short StoriesBy: Tobias Wolff Series: Vintage Contemporaries Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an

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Sophie knows that training a bunch of privileged high school kids whose idea of a play is A Chorus Line instead of a walk-off homer is going to be a big change from the pro athletes she’s used to

Judy and her friends are on the playground when Jessica Finch overhears a fifth-grader talking

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