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The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (The Best American Series)
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by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler
Sales Rank: 419809
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Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: Houghton Mifflin October 5, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0618517456
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0618517459
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Says series editor Otto Penzler, "It's about finding the best stories, by whoever happens to have written them," in his foreword to this outstanding mystery annual. He picked Joyce Carol Oates as this year's guest editor, and Oates almost immediately put her brand on the book—not waiting for Penzler to send her the top 50 choices from which she would winnow the twenty final entries, but branching out on her own, finding some of the volume's best stories by beginning writers in small circulation magazines as well as in collections from relatively unknown publishers. There's also much star power, made even more impressive by the editors' resistance to famous names getting in on reputation alone. Dennis Lehane's "Until Gwen," Laura Lippman's "The Shoeshine Man's Regrets," Louise Erdrich's "Disaster Stamps of Pluto" and Scott Turow's "Loyalty" are as good as any full-length novels these writers have produced recently. And what a great pleasure it is to have the remarkable talents of the late George V. Higgins displayed in all their glory in "Jack Duggan's Law."
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From Booklist
Wags might expect this annual anthology, under Oates' guest-editorship, to grow to 1,000 pages--or at least to begin publishing quarterly. Never fear. Collaborating with series general editor Penzler, she has selected a tight twenty stories. In his foreword, Penzler praises the genre-blurring evolution of "mystery" stories and provides proof of his premise in the following pages. The roster includes well-known surnames--Erdrich, Higgins, Kaminsky, Lehane, Sayles, and Turow--but the lesser-knowns (culled more often from literary journals and even e-zines) deliver delightful surprises: in "The Identity Club," Richard Burgin draws a high-concept karmic circle; in "The Last Man I Killed," David Rachel maps a connection between war and academe; in "Reconstruction," Sam Shaw sends two misfits on the lam; and in "Barracuda," Scott Wolven puts a crooked timber appraiser through a series of left turns. Readers irked by the lack of pure detection can console themselves with "Delmonico," a locked-room noir, by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). For any fan of good storytelling. Keir Graff
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This review is from: The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (The Best American Series (TM)) (Hardcover)
Joyce Carol Oates proves once again that not only is she one of our most talented writers but she is also a brilliant editor. This is one of the best anthologies of the year.
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