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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories

By: Amy Bloom

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Vintage: July 2001

Seller ID: 266716

ISBN: 0375705570

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, " and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories""and""Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards." "In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form. Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother an...
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A Good Fall (Vintage International)

By: Ha Jin

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage: October 2010

Seller ID: 79347

ISBN: 0307473945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In his first book of stories since "The Bridegroom, "National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.A lonely composer takes comfort in the antics of his girlfriend's parakeet; young children decide to change their names so they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will hurt their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jin's characters struggle to remain loyal to their homeland and its traditions while also exp...
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A Tranquil Star: Stories

By: Primo Levi

Price: $13.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: April 2008

Seller ID: 75599

ISBN: 039333161X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire ...
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American Stories

By: C. Michael Curtis

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books: May 1990

Seller ID: 211896

ISBN: 0877016917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories

By: Edith Pearlman, Ann Patchett (introduction)

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Lookout Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 165976

ISBN: 0982338295

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

By: Sherman Alexie

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Grove Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 257519

ISBN: 0802121756

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

By Invitation Only: A Novel

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Price: $8.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: April 2019

Seller ID: 259529

ISBN: 0062390813

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

By: N/A

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: March 2005

Seller ID: 152222

ISBN: 074327394X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they re his very favorite stories, he ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves. David Sedaris didn t write the stories in Children "Pla...
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella

By: George Saunders

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: April 2016

Seller ID: 199846

ISBN: 0812987683

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Collected Stories of John O'Hara: Selected and With an Introduction by Frank MacShane

By: O'Hara, John

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Random House: February 1985

Seller ID: 271220

ISBN: 0394540832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Conjunctions: 38, Rejoicing Revoicing

By: Edith Grossman,Edmund Keeley,Breon Mitchell,Richard Pevear,Burton Pike,Gregory Rabassa,Larissa Volokhonsky,Richard Howard

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Bard College: May 2002

Seller ID: 180661

ISBN: 094196454X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

It has been said that translators are the unacknowledged ambassadors of literature. With Rejoicing Revoicing, Conjunctions celebrates these masterful artists as the bearers of cultural riches that they are. In an unprecedented gathering of works-in-progress by many of America's most renowned translators and some of the field's younger stars, Rejoicing Revoicing invites readers on an odyssey through both classic and contemporary world literature. From Latin America to Europe, from Africa to East Asia, and from Medieval and Renaissance to the present, these works show how rich, diverse, and chal...
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Conjunctions: 41, Two Kingdoms

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Bard College: November 2003

Seller ID: 180696

ISBN: 0941964574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Bard College: January 2014

Seller ID: 180668

ISBN: 0941964779

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie" is a collection of previously unpublished essays, fiction and poetry that seek to imagine the world of our fellow beings--animals. From Adam naming the animals in Genesis to Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Melville's "Moby-Dick," writers, philosophers and scientists have long been fascinated by our interplay with the rest of the animal kingdom. Our mythologies and pantheons are populated with snakes, monkeys, cats, jackals and whales. Our species' relationship with other animals is complex, difficult and wildly contradictory--they are friends, enemies, tools, food. D...
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Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers

By: Susie Mee

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: October 1995

Seller ID: 196991

ISBN: 0156001217

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A collection of diverse voices and experiences, all springing from a shared legacy: memories of the american South, of being "downhome." Mee introduces each group of stories and then lets the authors reveal aspects of the South from their own female point of view. Introduction by the Author.
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

By: ZZ Packer

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: February 2004

Seller ID: 236219

ISBN: 1573223786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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 unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decides where his...
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, 'Found' Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2012

Seller ID: 241171

ISBN: 039334195X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they've found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative storie...
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Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance

By: N/A

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Free Press: January 2008

Seller ID: 240016

ISBN: 1416569731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you." Is there any communication more potent than the love letter? Is there any charge greater than seeing those words on paper? The editors ...
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Granta 39: The Body

By: N/A

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: April 1992

Seller ID: 271052

ISBN: 0140140492

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Granta 50

By: Buford, Bill

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Granta Books: April 1995

Seller ID: 270602

ISBN: 0140141049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky: July 2001

Seller ID: 262115

ISBN: 0813121922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

With an introduction by Wade Hall Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronol...
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If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

By: N/A

Price: $5.98

Publisher: New Pr: November 1994

Seller ID: 155148

ISBN: 1565841816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"A fine anthology that will intrigue those new to Caribbean literature and may surprise even aficionados"
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Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature (Penguin Classics)

By: Various

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 2010

Seller ID: 166343

ISBN: 0141194006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

From the author of "The Alchemist," a unique and edifying literary journey inspired by the four elements. One of the world's best-loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho has brought joy and wisdom to millions. In "Inspirations," his arrangement of his personal favorite literary classics is as selective as a bouquet of flowers, a gift to his readers. This compendium of works will becomes a perennial gift and perfect companion to Coelho's own bestselling classic, "The Alchemist." Coelho's inspiration draws from each work' affinity to the four elements."Earth" includes Oscar Wilde and D.H....
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Man V. Nature: Stories

By: Diane Cook

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 2015

Seller ID: 71652

ISBN: 0062333119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City

By: N/A

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Chronicle Books: June 2004

Seller ID: 269974

ISBN: 0811844943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. "New Orleans Stories" collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has played host and muse -- from Walt Whitman and William Faulkner to Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston. With a striking new cover, this anthology captures the vibrancy -- and variety -- of New Orleans as it casts its most seductive spell.
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

By: Miranda July

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Scribner: May 2008

Seller ID: 262569

ISBN: 0743299418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. "No One Belongs Here More Than You" is a stunning debut, the work...
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No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2004

Seller ID: 259037

ISBN: 0393326179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish was a hybrid language crafted from German, mixed with Hebrew, Judeo-Aramaic, and blended with Italian and French as well as the Slavic languages. It gave rise to a literature that reflected not only Jewish life but also the culture of the lands in which the Jews lived. A descriptive and flavorful language, it was used for genres as diverse as religious tales, fables, humor, social realism, surrealism, and the literary experiments of modern times. "N...
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Pack of Lies

By: GILBERT SORRENTINO

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr: May 1997

Seller ID: 94679

ISBN: 1564781542

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Solo

By: N/A

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Coach House Pr: March 1994

Seller ID: 180769

ISBN: 0889104492

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Speaking with the Angel

By: N/A

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: February 2001

Seller ID: 251008

ISBN: 1573228583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'FarrellCompiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection that is sure to be the literary anthology of the year. Here is a book that was inspired by a very special boy and a very special school. Some money from each copy of Speaking with the Angel sold will benefit autism education char...
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Stories from Blue Latitudes : Caribbean Women Writers at Home And Abroad

By: ELIZABETH NUNEZ, JENNIFER SPARROW

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: November 2005

Seller ID: 164319

ISBN: 1580051391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kinkaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. In some, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean girls and women becomes a metaphor for neocolonialism, a biting rejoinder to enticing travel brochures that depict the Caribbean as a tropical playground and encourage Americans to "make it your own." Other tales deal with the sad legacy of colonial history and ...
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The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology

By: N/A

Price: $7.48

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 1991

Seller ID: 264411

ISBN: 0393308324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of "mainstream" American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multi-ethnic richness and diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards.
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Best American R)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2012

Seller ID: 73015

ISBN: 0547595964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012" includes Kevin Brockmeier, Judy Budnitz, Junot Di...
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

By: Mark Twain

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Modern Library: April 2004

Seller ID: 145477

ISBN: 0812971183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

By: Welty, Eudora

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Harcourt: October 1980

Seller ID: 269841

ISBN: 0151189943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.
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The Giant Book of Scottish Short Stories

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books: October 1989

Seller ID: 179797

ISBN: 0872263274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Previous owner's name written inside front cover otherwise pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear.
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The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories

By: Gustaw Herling

Price: $5.98

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation: June 2003

Seller ID: 111036

ISBN: 0811215296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Noonday Cemetery & Other Stories, selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, is a collection of thirteen brilliant stories spanning the last twenty years of his life. His novel The Island was published to great acclaim in 1993, and his memoir, A World Apart, is among the most powerful accounts of life in the Soviet gulag. Volcano and Miracle, published in 1996, contains short fiction and prose writings from his Journal Written at Night. But nowhere before have Herling's best stories and Herling was indeed a master of the short story been compiled and published in English...
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

By: N/A

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1994

Seller ID: 242173

ISBN: 0195092627

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies." Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? "Isn't the implicit promise of an...
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