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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of motherhood. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye."
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.
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Language
English
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The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, We Live in Water is a diverse suite of stories marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of America’s most talked-about writers. Stories in We Live in Water range from comic tales of love to social satire and suspenseful crime fiction. Traveling from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, to a condemned...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 496 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day. A master of the genre, Louise Erdrich has selected these pieces--thirty works that first appeared in magazines as well as six unpublished stories--from among a much larger oeuvre. She has ordered them chronologically but also by theme and voice. Erdrich is a fearless and inventive writer. In her fictional...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.”...
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Language
English
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A collection of stories contemplates subjects ranging from old age and mortality to the unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe manifest, depicting haunted characters trying to atone for the past, remember departed loved ones, or come to terms with lifelong obsessions.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In her first short story collection, [Smith] combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. With ten ... stories complemented by a selection of her most lauded pieces for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta, [this book] explores a wide range of subjects, from first loves to cultural despair, as well as the desire to be the subject of your own experience"--
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in “Pending Vegan”; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in “Traveler Home”; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in “Procedure in Plain Air”; and a crumbling, haunted “blog” on a seaside cliff in “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear.” Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"These fifteen ... stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In 'A Full-Service Shelter', a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In 'Greed,' a spurned wife examines her husband's affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in 'Cloudland,' the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with...
14) Wireless
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn’s Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction— including a novella original to this volume— brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century’s most daring visionaries.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties...
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Language
English
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Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway's imagination.
17) I, Richard
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Language
English
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In five fairly long tales, George serves up psychological detection in one, Stephen King-like horror in another, a puzzle mystery, a history mystery, and one that gives an O. Henry twist to the O. J. Simpson case.
Author
Series
Elderly lady volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed...
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Language
English
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A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away — the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder — are...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce,...
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