The Best American Short Stories 1976

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The Best American Short Stories 1976
Edited by Martha Foley
The renowned Best American Short Stories series parades into its seventh decade of publication this Bicentennial year with a stellar collection of superb stories. As always, Martha Foley, who has edited these distinguished annual volumes since 1941, has made a judicious and broad-ranging selection of exciting new work by both celebrated and newly discovered writers, from magazines ranging from the very popular to the virtually unobtainable.
Many names in the table of contents will be familiar and welcome to readers. Ward Just, for instance, is represented with "Dietz at War," a brilliantly etched portrait of a reporter in the midst of battle, both overseas and on the home front, and Cynthia Ozick contributes a masterful tale of Stanislas Lushinski, "a Pole and a diplomat" — but not a Polish diplomat — in "A Mercenary." Other well-known writers whose work has been chosen this year include Alice Adams, Reynolds Price,... Tovább

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The Best American Short Stories 1976
Edited by Martha Foley
The renowned Best American Short Stories series parades into its seventh decade of publication this Bicentennial year with a stellar collection of superb stories. As always, Martha Foley, who has edited these distinguished annual volumes since 1941, has made a judicious and broad-ranging selection of exciting new work by both celebrated and newly discovered writers, from magazines ranging from the very popular to the virtually unobtainable.
Many names in the table of contents will be familiar and welcome to readers. Ward Just, for instance, is represented with "Dietz at War," a brilliantly etched portrait of a reporter in the midst of battle, both overseas and on the home front, and Cynthia Ozick contributes a masterful tale of Stanislas Lushinski, "a Pole and a diplomat" — but not a Polish diplomat — in "A Mercenary." Other well-known writers whose work has been chosen this year include Alice Adams, Reynolds Price, Peter Taylor, Barry Targan, and John Updike, while H.E. Francis's "A Chronicle of Love" and John
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Hagge's "Pontius Pilate" are only two of a remarkable group of stories by more newly discovered talent.
The Best American Short Stories is a national institution, an irreplaceable treasure-house of American writing at its best. The new 1976 collection, like its predecessors, is full of delights and surprises, a revealing index of where we are and where we are going, and an important addition to any bookshelf.
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MARTHA FOLEY, who was born and educated in Boston, began her literary career as a newspaper reporter when still in her teens. She went on to become a European foreign correspondent and, while in Vienna, founded Story magazine in 1931. As the only magazine then devoted solely to literary short stories, it became the focus for an entire generation of famous authors. Out of the fiction workshop she conducted at Columbia University also have come many well-known writers. She succeeded Edward J. O'Brien as editor of The Best American Short Stories in 1941. Miss Foley now lives in western Massachusetts where she is completing a book of her literary memoirs.
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