Short Stories: Five Decades (Digital Original) (Phoenix Fiction Ser.)

By: Irwin Shaw

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Synopsis: 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.

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