Call number
FIC TRE
Collection
Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2010), Edition: Original, 448 pages
Description
A collection of twenty stories by North American writers under the age of forty who the editors of the New Yorker felt were, or soon would be, standouts in contemporary fiction.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Cecilturtle
I don't think that there is a single bad story in this collection. Usually, there is one or two of uneven quality, but these are all stellar. What amazed me most was the variety of topics and voices, from very modern to fairy tales to historical pieces and from very descriptive to poetic and short,
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streamlined sentences. I was never bored, discovered a series of authors of whom I will no doubt read more books and always looked forward to the next story. These compilations always come with a bag of criticisms (in this case, why choose age as a factor?), but regardless, Treisman did a terrific job of choosing compelling tales from a wide and fascinating corpus. I definitely recommend it! Show Less
LibraryThing member tripleAgirl
This is one of the best collections of short stories I've ever read and I discovered some new authors. The downside, of course, is that my new favorite authors are young and haven't written very many books yet. ::sigh::
LibraryThing member porch_reader
I've had this volume on my shelf for a few years, and I decided to pick it up this month. Between grading and Christmas preparations, I don't have a lot of time to read in December, so short stories seemed like a good idea. This collection has some of my favorite authors, including Nicole Krauss,
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Dinaw Mengestu, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, along with some new-to-me authors. I generally enjoyed these stories. "The Science of Flight" by Yiyun Li and "Second Lives' by Daniel Alarcon stood out to me because of their ability to capture the essences of their character's lives in a few pages. These stories added layers upon layers to their characters through carefully crafted sentences meted out steadily across the story's pages. Show Less
LibraryThing member rmagahiz
I mostly liked the stories collected here, which were widely varied, even the ones I didn't really understand. The strength of literary fiction is the exploration of the inner life of a character and the best of these pull some pretty nifty tricks shining a light on a creature of the imagination in
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a nearly miraculous way. The plots often are asked to play a secondary role. Show Less
Pages
448
ISBN
0374532877 / 9780374532871