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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...
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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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Best American Short Stories 1992

By: STONE, ROBERT, KENISON, KATRINA

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: November 1992

Seller ID: 281115

ISBN: 0395593530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders's debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author's note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice.

Praise for George Saunders and Civ...
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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

This fall, Conjunctions lives up to its name by bringing together two distinguished and award-winning novelists--Howard Norman, who guest-edits the issue, and Rick Moody, who edits a special portfolio. Conjunctions: 41, Two Kingdoms is an anthology of previously unpublished writing that addresses the theme of inescapable dualism in our lives. The issue's title derives from a letter by Edward Lear. Collecting fiction, poetry, essays and multi-genre works, this issue explores the individual who inhabits two spheres, from the geographic to the linguistic, from the psychological to t...
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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,...
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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 e...
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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 chr...
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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...
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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

San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the Year
Boston Globe's "Best Fiction of 2014"
Roxane Gay's Top Ten Books of the Year
An Amazon Best Short Story Collection of 2014
An iBook Best of 2014
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world.
Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutali...
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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

Gilbert Sorrentino is one of the most accomplished innovators in twentieth-century fiction, a position that is everywhere confirmed in this trilogy of novels, ?"Odd Number," ?"Rose Theatre," and?"Misterioso." Beginning with a series of interrogations (we never do find out why they are being conducted) about characters drawn from other Sorrentino novels and concluding with the reappearance of the same characters, ?"Pack of Lies"?is Gilbert Sorrentino's testament to the supremacy of art and society, and a vicious comedy portraying a world of fraud and mayhem.
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Speaking with the Angel

By: Nick Hornby

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: February 2001

Seller ID: 251008

ISBN: 1573228583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell
Compiled 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 a...
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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 Kincaid, 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 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 ...
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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

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author's twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain's artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.
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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 shor...
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1994

Seller ID: 258134

ISBN: 0195092627

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
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The Short Stories of Saki (H H Munro) (Modern Library, 280.1)

By: (Saki), H H Munro

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Modern Library: January 1951

Seller ID: 271990

ISBN: B000PANK5C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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The Stories of Alice Adams

By: Alice Adams

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage: November 2019

Seller ID: 248327

ISBN: 1984898116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Twenty-five of her stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker within a ten-year period. Others were published in The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCall's. Her work was included in twenty-three O. Henry Award collections, and she received first prize six times; she was represented in numerous collections of Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories.
Now the best of Alice Adams's short fiction is gathered in one volume-fifty-three stories that illumine the hidden workings of human relationships. In "Verlie I Say Unto You," the unexpected death of Verlie Jone...
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Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition (Vintage Contemporaries Original)

By: Alice Munro

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage: April 2014

Seller ID: 262830

ISBN: 0804173567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This classic collection--now revised and expanded--is the perfect introduction to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories, in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience.
The stories in this volume span Munro's career: The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; "Differently," from Friend of My Youth; "Carried Away," from Open Secrets; and (new to this edition) "In Sight of the Lake," from Dear L...
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William Trevor: The Collected Stories

By: Trevor, William

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: November 1992

Seller ID: 271004

ISBN: 0670841293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Writers Harvest, 2: A Collection of New Fiction

By: Ethan Canin

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: November 1996

Seller ID: 99515

ISBN: 0156002469

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A bountiful collection of previously unpublished stories-by Julia Alvarez, Frederick Barthelme, Michael Chabon, Alice Fulton, Mary Gaitskill, David Haynes, Gary Krist, Jill McCorkle, Melanie Rae Thon, and ten others-whose royalties benefit Share Our Strength s antihunger programs.
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