Short Stories

From the O. Henry Award-winning author of Rich Man, Poor Man, a collection of short stories revealing a wide-ranging portrait of life in postwar America. New York Times bestselling author Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker's fiction pages in the 1930s and '40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as "e;The Eighty-Yard Run,"e; a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and "e;Main Currents in American Thought,"e; in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw's writing as demonstrated in these pages maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher's soul. "e;Shaw remains a genial, seductive storyteller, especially adept with money matters and comfy milieus."e; Kirkus Reviews"e;[Shaw] always writes immensely readable books."e; The New York TimesThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.