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      Paperback The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction Book
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      ISBN: 0061661589

      ISBN13: 9780061661587

      21st Century Voices: Contemporary American Short Fiction

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      A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters

      Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, the living master of the short story (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.

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      I just picked this book up yesterday, and I found 48 stories by 48 different authors to keep me busy for quite some time. As a student of fiction writing, it is great to have a collection of contemporary stories, "of which nearly all were written and published in the twenty-first century." Although there are many stories that could not be collected here, Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha selected a great range of...

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