The Best American Short Stories 2005

This year's collection is edited by the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and short story writer Michael Chabon. His eclectic selections include pieces from publications as diverse as Granta, Salon.com, Harvard Review, and The New Yorker. Another exciting installment of the always enticing, best-selling anthology.

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
The Smile on Happy Chang's Face: from Post Road	p. 1
Until Gwen: from The Atlantic Monthly	p. 19
A Taste of Dust: from Ninth Letter	p. 35
Old Friends: from The New Yorker	p. 43
Eight Pieces for the Left Hand: from Granta	p. 58
Stone Animals: from Conjunctions	p. 67
First Four Measures: from The Paris Review	p. 109
The Scheme of Things: from The New Yorker	p. 125
Silence: from The New Yorker	p. 149
Death Defier: from Virginia Quarterly Review	p. 174
The Girls: from Idaho Review	p. 212
Anda's Game: from Salon.com	p. 223
Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student: from Swink	p. 251
Old Boys, Old Girls: from The New Yorker	p. 265
The Secret Goldfish: from The New Yorker	p. 288
The Cousins: from Harper's Magazine	p. 298
Natasha: from Harper's Magazine	p. 318
Hart and Boot: from Polyphony	p. 339
Justice Shiva Ram Murthy: from Harvard Review	p. 356
Bohemians: from The New Yorker	p. 374
Contributors' Notes	p. 383
100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2004	p. 394
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