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First published in 1992, when it sold over 25,000 copies, this is a new edition of the short story anthology, reissued to tie in with the second volume, also out this month.
Synopsis
An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration.