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The UnAmericans: Stories
Molly Antopol - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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*Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by Molly Antopol, a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles... |
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Almost Famous Women: Stories
Megan Mayhew Bergman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, a dazzling new collection that explores the lives of unforgettable women in history.The fascinating characters in Megan Mayhew Bergman's new stories are defined by their creative impulses, fierce independence, and sometimes reckless... |
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Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories
Katherine Heiny - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Katherine Heinys work does something magical elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives womens interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.Lena DunhamSingle, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing a debut... |
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Stranger Things Happen: Stories
Kelly Link - Small Beer Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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“An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”—Salon.com (Best of the Year)“A delightful collection.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer“My favorite fantasy writer.”—Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered"Link's... |
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage Contemporaries)
Karen Russell
Format: Paperback
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A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living... |
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The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson
Format: Paperback
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The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime,... |
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Bark: Stories
Lorrie Moore - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America ("Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability."... |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories
Haruki Murakami - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full... |
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Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking... |
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Raymond Carver: Collected Stories
Raymond Carver - Library of America
Format: Print book
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Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ?80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching... |
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together... |
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
ZZ Packer - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with... |
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Book
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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple... |
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