The Playboy Book of Short Stories edited by Alice Turner

Description

For forty years now Playboy has been making history.

Fiction was from the first an important ingredient in the Playboy recipe. Month after month, a dazzling procession of the most glittering literary stars of the day paraded through the columns of the magazine. In an age of family values writers like Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin and Joyce Carol Oates, found in the pages of the adult magazine a liberating stage upon which to be themselves. By the early seventies, with international giants of the stature of Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez contributing regularly, a Playboy commission had assumed a momentum all its own. It has become, quite simply, a coveted honour.

The tales in the anthology represent nothing less than a history of the short story through forty years of range and change. Enjoy these stories as they were first enjoyed in the pages of Playboy: for their style and their verve, their intelligence and wit, their irresistible humour and their haunting power.

Contributors include: Jack Kerouac, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, Jaoyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Theroux, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, etc.