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The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series): Book summary and reviews of The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) by Salman Rushdie (editor)
The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) SummaryThis brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly). The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) Reviews"Starred Review. A bleak but brilliant collection." - Kirkus Reviews. The information about The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) Reader ReviewsClick here and be the first to review this book!
Salman Rushdie (editor) Author Biography
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1947. He studied in India and England, reading History at King's College, Cambridge. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975. His second novel, the critically acclaimed and award-winning Midnight's Children, was published in 1991. Among its honors, it was pronounced the 'Booker of the Bookers,' which recognized it as the best example of that illustrious prize. Malcolm Bradley in The Modern British Novel (1994) pronounced the book "a new start for the late-twentieth-century novel." Rushdie's next novel, Shame, also won critical acclaim and international awards. Famously, Rushdie's next book, The Satanic Verses, incurred an issuance of a fatwa – a call for his... Recently Published Short Stories/Essays
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