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The United States of McSweeney's Ten Years of Accidental Classics

Short stories

Hardback (05 Nov 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Since 1998, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year - or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have been submitted, usually in manila envelopes, mostly from unknown names living in unfamiliar corners. Approximately 400 of those stories were selected for publication. Eighteen of them appear here, wildly diverse in style and subject, from some of the finest writers of today and tomorrow. Several typos have been removed.

About the Publisher

Hamish Hamilton

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780241144374
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 813.010806
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 286
Weight: 936g
Height: 235mm
Width: 188mm
Spine width: 31mm