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Stories from The New Yorker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2010
On Sale: November 23, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 0374532877
EAN: 9780374532871
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Non-Fiction
In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to
widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under
40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central
to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories
by this stellar group of writers over the course of the
summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume. The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical
realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan,
and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris
and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan
Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Téa Obreht. David Bezmozgis
and Dinaw Mengestu offer clear eyed portraits of immigration
and identity; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ZZ Packer, and Wells
Tower offer voice-driven, idiosyncratic narratives. Then
there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li, and the
metaphysical fantasies of Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen, and
Karen Russell. Each of these writers reminds us why we read. And each is
aiming for greatness: fighting to get and to hold our
attention in a culture that is flooded with words, sounds,
and pictures; fighting to surprise, to entertain, to teach,
and to move not only us but generations of readers to come.
A landmark collection, 20 Under 40 stands as a testament to
the vitality of fiction today.
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