Short Stories

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times?bestselling novelist. 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 ?The Eighty-Yard Run,? a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and ?Main Currents in American Thought,? 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. ? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author?s estate.