Category: Fiction: Short Stories/Anthologies

A Calendar of Love

By: Mackay Brown, George

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Polygon : August 2017

Seller ID: 361110

ISBN-13: 9781904598732

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this, George Mackay Brown's first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out - an obsession with his home Orkney, its dark and violent Viking past, the cycle of the seasons, and the struggle of its inhabitants. The characters of these stories - the fishermen, the crofters, the farmers and the wild tinkers - are all struggling to live their lives and find their identities in a harsh habitat and a cruel age. The stories in this collection share the same melancholy tone and sense of the ceaseless renewal made possible by the natural cycle.
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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories

By: Murray, John

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : January 2004

Seller ID: 414972

ISBN-13: 9780060509293

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so given that this is the author's first book. Murray is adept at holding together a complex narrative and creating characters who reach out emotionally to the reader upon first meeting.Global in scope, classical in form, evocative of place, and deeply emotional, this collection marks the beginning of wh...
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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (Plume Fiction)

By: COLCHIE, THOMAS

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Plume : November 1992

Seller ID: 477615

ISBN-13: 9780452268661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This collection of twenty-six stories is "a fine introduction to Latin American literature" (The Washington Post Book World). This splendid collection of stories by twenty-six Latin American authors features the new voices and celebrated masters of one of the world's foremost literatures. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguities of Carlos Fuentes' "The Doll Queen," the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector's "Love," or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the parodically hard-boiled detective fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly soft-boil...
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A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This

By: Coover, Robert

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Linden Pub : January 1987

Seller ID: 429999

ISBN-13: 9780671617967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American Estrangement: Stories

By: Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2023

Seller ID: 455266

ISBN-13: 9781324050483

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Are We Related?: The Granta Book of the Family

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Grove Press, Granta : December 2009

Seller ID: 363497

ISBN-13: 9781847081124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bad Behavior: Stories

By: Gaitskill, Mary

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2009

Seller ID: 476830

ISBN-13: 9781439148877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, Bad Behavior--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. - Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill's arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "Pinteresque," saying,...
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Barbara the Slut and Other People

By: Holmes, Lauren

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Riverhead Books : August 2015

Seller ID: 471339

ISBN-13: 9781594633782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Holmes trains a precise lens on the millennial generation's mixed bag of manners, mores, and machinations... In these] beautifully brazen stories, worlds collide in fresh, imaginative ways." --Elle A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human. Fearless, candid, and incredibly funny, Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch, a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit, and a genius for revealing our most ...
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Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language German)

By: Kafka, Franz

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : April 1997

Seller ID: 459032

ISBN-13: 9780486295619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Students of German language and literature will welcome this dual-language edition of five stories by Franz Kafka (1883-1924). Considered one of the greatest modern writers, Kafka wrote tales that brilliantly explore the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life.The stories in this volume are The Metamorphosis (thought by many critics to be Kafka's most perfect work), The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor, and A Report to an Academy. Along with the original German texts, Stanley Applebaum has provided accurate English translations on facing pages, affording students an ide...
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Bone by Bone: Stories

By: Krist, Gary

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : April 1994

Seller ID: 463763

ISBN-13: 9780151820641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For the Garden State, his 1988 collection of short stories, Gary Krist received the highly prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The reviews were entusiastic. "Smart and tender short stories written with enticing crispness...Krist is a remarkable writer, and just starting," said the Los Angeles Times. Bone by Bone, like the Garden State, takes its characters from the middle class of New Jersey, adding Brooklyn and upstate New York. Children, lovers, senior citizens; salesmen, morticians, college administrators. People of every possible s...
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

By: Meloy, Maile

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Riverhead Books : July 2009

Seller ID: 465777

ISBN-13: 9781594488696

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009-- now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart-- award-winning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explore complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Don't miss her new novel, Do Not Become Alarmed. Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade. Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power...
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Briefs

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Lulu.com : February 2010

Seller ID: 464490

ISBN-13: 9780557310043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

BRIEFS is a groundbreaking new collection of "microstories" from celebrated author John Edgar Wideman, previous winner of both the Rea and O. Henry awards saluting mastery of the short story form. Here he has assembled a masterful collage that explodes our assumptions about the genre. Wideman unveils an utterly original voice and structure-hip-hop zen-where each story is a single breath, to be caught, held, shared and savored. A relief worker's Sudan bulletin, a jogger's bullet-dodging daydreams, your neighbor's fears and fantasies, an absent mother's regrets-Wideman's storytellers are eavesdr...
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

By: Carter, Angela

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : August 1997

Seller ID: 478681

ISBN-13: 9780140255287

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents--as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales--are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its ta...
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Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish American Women's Fiction

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : January 1997

Seller ID: 466092

ISBN-13: 9780805055795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A groundbreaking collection that confirms the contribution Irish-American women have made to literature in this century. Organized chronologically from writings at the turn of the century to the present day, these 25 pieces explore the sometimes crushing love of family, the mixed blessing of faith, identity and sexuality, and serve to resurrect the image, once buried of Irish women as storytellers.
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Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson

By: Anderson, Sherwood

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr : January 1992

Seller ID: 473888

ISBN-13: 9780941423854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age

By: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Barnes & Noble : March 2007

Seller ID: 475168

ISBN-13: 9780760786307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Known today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections--Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age--came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines. With stories like "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Jelly Bean," he portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.
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Come to Me : Stories

By: BLOOM, AMY

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harpercollins : March 1994

Seller ID: 470346

ISBN-13: 9780060995140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Come to Me : Stories

By: BLOOM, AMY

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harpercollins : March 1994

Seller ID: 470481

ISBN-13: 9780060995140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Compulsory Happiness (Writings From An Unbound Europe)

By: Manea, Norman

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Northwestern University Press : October 1994

Seller ID: 382204

ISBN-13: 9780810111905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, Norman Manea's four novellas create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.

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Conjunctions: 41, Two Kingdoms

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Bard College : November 2003

Seller ID: 180696

ISBN-13: 9780941964579

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 the historic an...
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Conjunctions: 76

By: Morrow, Bradford

Price: $9.98

Seller ID: 430368

ISBN-13: 9780941964289

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Conjunctions: 77 States of Play

By: Branford Morrow

Price: $9.98

Seller ID: 430296

ISBN-13: 9780941964883

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Conjunctions: 78 Fear Itself

By: Bradford Morrow

Price: $9.98

Seller ID: 430294

ISBN-13: 9780941964890

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Cruising Paradise: Tales

By: Shepard, Sam

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Vintage : June 1997

Seller ID: 476806

ISBN-13: 9780679742173

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry.The short stories, journal entries, and dialogues collected in Cruising Paradise take us from a South Dakota motel room, where a man and a woman fight bitterly and part mysteriously, to a Mexican border town, where a mortified actor charms a female bureaucrat by pretending to be Spencer Tracy. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, Sam Shepard's tales map the places where our culture is defined, while giving us our most intimate vi...
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Delicate Prey : And Other Stories

By: BOWLES, PAUL

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Harpercollins : November 1990

Seller ID: 462475

ISBN-13: 9780880012638

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, Pocono Shot, and Other Great Dog Stories

By: Foote, John Taintor

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Lyons and Burford : May 1993

Seller ID: 472832

ISBN-13: 9781558212626

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Some of the most memorable dog stories ever; introduced by Timothy Foote.
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Einstein's Monsters

By: Amis, Martin

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Harmony : May 1987

Seller ID: 457910

ISBN-13: 9780517565209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Emerald City

By: Egan, Jennifer

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Anchor : October 2007

Seller ID: 462715

ISBN-13: 9780307387530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters - models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls - are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
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Emperor of the Air

By: Canin, Ethan

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Mariner Books : September 1999

Seller ID: 434990

ISBN-13: 9780618004140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Exhalation: Stories

By: Chiang, Ted

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Knopf : May 2019

Seller ID: 479116

ISBN-13: 9781101947883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact - reading wear to the edges.
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False Bingo: Stories

By: Jemc, Jac

Price: $6.99

Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals : October 2019

Seller ID: 429893

ISBN-13: 9780374538354

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer's "Annihilation," the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood --The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Fall Read by The Boston Globe and the Chicago TribuneThe mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of ItIn Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces--some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not--work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In "Strange Loop," an outcast attempting to escape ...
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Five Tuesdays in Winter

By: King, Lily

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Grove Press : November 2021

Seller ID: 456983

ISBN-13: 9780802158765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Flower Fables

By: Alcott, Louisa

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Applewood Books : January 2005

Seller ID: 476467

ISBN-13: 9781557099549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A beautiful hardcover edition collection of illustrated fairy stories from Louisa May Alcott-the author who brought us Little Women. Originally published in 1854, this collection of fables was inspired by Louisa's time spent in the woods around Walden Pond-a spot endearingly named "Fairyland" by Walden's own Henry David Thoreau.Young Louisa collected these fairy fables into a volume dedicated to her friend Ellen Emerson, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This volume-published under the title, Flower Fables-was Louisa's first published book. Applewood Books has partnered with Louisa May Alco...
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

By: Englander, Nathan

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage : March 2000

Seller ID: 446197

ISBN-13: 9780375704437

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. The Wig takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In The Tumblers, Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of st...
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Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

By: International, Amnesty

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Crown : January 2011

Seller ID: 470974

ISBN-13: 9780307588838

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bestselling authors bring together a thought-provoking collection of short stories, each inspired by one of thirty human rights adopted by the United Nations and promoted by Amnesty International. Freedom is a mix of thoughtful, serious, funny, and thrilling stories that harness the power of literature to celebrate--and affirm--our shared humanity. Published in association with Amnesty International, an array of internationally acclaimed & award-winning writers remind us these fundamental freedoms - ratified in 1948 - are just as crucial to protect and uphold today as ever. The United Nation...
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Galatea: A Short Story

By: Miller, Madeline

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Ecco : November 2022

Seller ID: 473519

ISBN-13: 9780063280519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories

By: Carter, Emily

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Picador : October 2001

Seller ID: 462017

ISBN-13: 9780312282516

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America? Emily Carter's critically acclaimed debut traces Glory's journey from her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York to her rebirth in Minnesota's recovery community. Glory Goes and Gets Some is a streetwise and sardonic look at sex, HIV, addiction, and recovery.

Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $13.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics : March 2004

Seller ID: 474746

ISBN-13: 9780060586546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer ... a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd...
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Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women

By: Gessen, Masha

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Cleis Press : April 1995

Seller ID: 475712

ISBN-13: 9781573440066

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Heavier Than Air: Stories (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)

By: Caspers, Nona

Price: $6.98

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press : November 2006

Seller ID: 435640

ISBN-13: 9781558495562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The stories in this first collection deliver the reader into a world in which men, women, and children are on the cusp of some deeper consciousness. The writing gives lie to orderly images of Midwesterners and instead evokes with unnerving clarity an interior landscape that is primitive and quietly chaotic. This is life in the balance - whole worlds at the moment of rupture. The children and adolescent characters search for a moral compass or center, while the adults tangle with their own desires. And yet, in these unprotected places, people thrive in unexpected ways.
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