The Best American Short Stories, 1989 [Paperback]

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Author), Shannon Ravenel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (P) (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395470986
• ISBN-13: 978-0395470985
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,563,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Monotonous, June 15, 2009

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Matthew Gerke (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best American Short Stories 1989 (Hardcover)

An anthology is probably not the best way to read short stories. In any event, the stories became monotonous after a while (perhaps Margaret Atwood only likes one particular type of short story). A variety of people (usually women) who are very sad, and often otherwise psychologically disfunctional, numbly lament their sadness, dysfunctionality, family, mistakes, etc. Maybe if there had been a few stories that contained something other than elegant writing about depression, then I would have enjoyed the depression stories more. As it was, I could barely finish. The best one was "Edie, A Life."