基本信息出版社：Algonquin Books
页码：384 页
出版日期：2007年08月
ISBN：1565125568
International Standard Book Number：1565125568
条形码：9781565125568
EAN：9781565125568
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：New Stories from the South
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This enduring celebration of the short story only gets better with age and this year enlists the talents of guest editor Edward P. Jones, "one of the most important writers of his own generation and of the present day" (the Washington Post Book World ).
In 1993, for the first time in his career, Edward P. Jones had a short story selected for an anthology. The story was "Marie." The anthology was the eighth volume of New Stories from the South. Now, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and short story writer returns to guest edit and introduce the twenty-second volume of this distinguished anthology.
Jones brings to the task his artistic vision for the short story and finds its best practitioners, and not just those with well-established names (James Lee Burke, Rick Bass, Tim Gautreaux, George Singleton) but writers just beginning their careers (Holly Goddard Jones, Joshua Ferris, Angela Threat, Philipp Meyer). Jones chooses eighteen stellar stories for the 2007 collection, stories that hold a special resonance for him. As he says in his introduction, "For something to claim me long after the last sentence, I need a sense that the world, for even one character, has shifted, whether to a large or a tiny degree. . . . I have tried to do my best to pick stories that are not, to use some of William Faulkner's words, about the glands, but about the human heart."
作者简介 Edward P. Jones has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004, and his first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. His most recent collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, has become a bestseller.^Kathy Pories earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught in the English Department at UNC and at Elon University before joining Algonquin in 1995. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
媒体推荐 "….One of the pleasures of reading "New Stories From the South," year after year, is discovering new talent, writers who have not yet published a book. . . . In "New Stories From the South 2007 --- The Year's Best," Edward P. Jones' story sense pays off."—Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta Journal Constitution )
"New Stories from the South is a literary anthology of the all-star variety."
—Miami Herald (Miami Herald )
"A suitably hospitable anthology, with an author comment, beneath his or her photo, at the end of each story." —Washington Post (The Washington Post )
"This is an evocative selection of 18 stories for those sons and daughters of the South who yearn for fiction that eschews the moonlight-and-magnolias claptrap. In his excellent introduction, novelist Edward P. Jones (The Known World) explores his original discomfort at being asked to edit a book of Southern short stories since he is a native of Washington, D.C. He asks: How do we define the South today? Traditional big hitters are featured: Rick Bass, James Lee Burke, Alan Gurganus and Tim Gautreaux, whose "The Safe" is outstanding. But the real excitement is reading stories by up-and-coming writers, such as National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris.”--USA Today (USA Today )
.One of the pleasures of reading New Stories From the South, year after year, is discovering new talent, writers who have not yet published a book. . . . In New Stories From the South 2007 --- The Year's Best, Edward P. Jones' story sense pays off.Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta Journal Constitution )
A suitably hospitable anthology, with an author comment, beneath his or her photo, at the end of each story. Washington Post (The Washington Post )
New Stories from the South is a literary anthology of the all-star variety. Miami Herald (Miami Herald )
This is an evocative selection of 18 stories for those sons and daughters of the South who yearn for fiction that eschews the moonlight-and-magnolias claptrap. In his excellent introduction, novelist Edward P. Jones (The Known World) explores his original discomfort at being asked to edit a book of Southern short stories since he is a native of Washington, D.C. He asks: How do we define the South today? Traditional big hitters are featured: Rick Bass, James Lee Burke, Alan Gurganus and Tim Gautreaux, whose The Safe is outstanding. But the real excitement is reading stories by up-and-coming writers, such as National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris.--USA Today
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
The 21st edition of Algonquin's signature anthology is not the series' strongest, but it's consistent and entertaining. Unlike some previous editions, the majority of the stories have something to do with the geographic South. Joshua Ferris's "Ghost Town Choir," set in Florida's Big Coppitt Key, begins with a son's witnessing a single mother's breakup rage, and also shows off a writer's ability to violate most of the rules of short fiction by using dual points of view. The tabloids inform Holly Goddard Jones's "Life Expectancy," which opens on a high school basketball coach's affair with a sophmore, and the haunting and horrifying portrait of a homicidal maniac in "Beauty and Virtue" by Augustín Maes is the strongest offering in the collection. Although it's the least overtly southern story in the book, Daniel Wallace's short vignette about marriage and perception of beauty is touching. The remainder, while always rewarding, tends to drift into stylistic showboating or to lack a deep connection to their backgrounds and settings. Nevertheless, editor Jones (All Aunt Hagar's Children, etc.) has brought a sharp eye to a venerable tradition, stewarded by series editor Kathy Pories.
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