A marvelous collection of fiction by America's best new writers. Upon its launch in 2000, Best New American Voices received acclaim for the range and originality of its selections, which represented the best writing from new American writers who are generally unknown but promise to become the literary stars of tomorrow. For the 2001 edition, National Book Award finalist Charles Baxter, together with series editors John Kulka and Natalie Danford, judged short stories from more than one hundred writing programs around the country to find the very best, most interesting, and most accomplished pieces by outstanding writing students. The result is presented here in a collection of seventeen tales that will be sure to attract attention and critical acclaim. Ranging from stories of passion, loneliness, and humor to masterful accounts of discovery and family politics, and set in locales from Burma and Japan to the Middle West and New England, these tales are eclectic, vivid, and cutting-edge, and showcase the best writing talent of tomorrow.

Best New American Voices 2001

Literature & Fiction

Charles Baxter

John Kulka

United States

Harvest Books

The Feast of Love

Pantheon Books / A Division of Random House, Inc.

Saul and Patsy, both from the East Coast, meet in college, fall in love, and settle down to married life in the Midwest. There, the lives of children -- their own and others' --begin to invade their own lives. One of Saul's students, a deeply troubled sixteen-year-old boy, has become obsessed with Saul's life. And although Saul can't see it coming, the outcome of the boy's obsession will lead Saul to question everything he has always assumed about himself, his community, and his marriage. 
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Saul and Patsy

Thorndike Press

Shadow Play-21.95

Smithmark Publishers

From John Smith's 1616 description of the New World to George W. Bush's address to the American people after 9/11; from the poems of the seventeenth century to the hymns of the twentieth; from John Winthrop to Martin Luther King Jr. American Voices takes you on a fascinating journey through history in the words of Americans whose voices still speak today.

American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History

History

RAYMOND CARVER

JOHN UPDIKE

Alice Adams

ANDREA BARRETT

SANDRA CISNEROS

Laurie Colwin

Frank Conroy

Harriet Doerr

Andrea Lee

Dennis McFARLAND

Joyce

Judith Rossner

John Sayles

Christopher Tilghman

Stephanie Vaughn

Amy, Tan

jane-smiley

Americas

Notgrass Company

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