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Come to Me

Amy Bloom · 192 pages

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Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri · 352 pages

These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers,

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After Rain

William Trevor · 212 pages

Chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eight best books of 1996, and by the Boston Globe as one of the six best books of fiction of 1996 -- Appeared on several bestseller lists, including The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Village Voice Literary Supplement -- William Trevor was the recipient of a 1996 Lannan Litera

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How We Are Hungry

Dave Eggers · 224 pages

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The Collected Stories

Richard Yates · 496 pages

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Stories

Anton Chekhov · 348 pages

Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.

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Last Evenings on Earth

Roberto Bolano · 224 pages

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Runaway

Alice Munro · 335 pages

In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel disco

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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

Anna Gavalda · 352 pages

"With arresting naturalism and a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda, "a gifted literary stylist" (Vogue), has a knack for capturing our inner as well as our outer dialogues with perfect pitch, evoking reflection, pain, and laughter in equal measure. The stories in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere are as wicked as they are i

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Call If You Need Me

Raymond Carver · 299 pages

Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death, are published for the first time. Includes all of Carver's prose previously collected, and five stories found recently among his papers.

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Summerhouse, Later: Stories

Judith Hermann · 224 pages

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Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger · 208 pages

First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.

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The News from Dublin: Stories

Colm Tóibín · 304 pages

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In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway · 156 pages

Short stories in the laconic style of a news reporter.

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Dusk and Other Stories

James Salter, Philip Gourevitch · 157 pages

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Exile and the Kingdom

Albert Camus · 213 pages

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Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout · 288 pages

Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man who aches

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Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson · 247 pages

Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virgi

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Lizard

Banana Yoshimoto · 180 pages

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Rock Springs

Richard Ford · 252 pages

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The Angel Esmeralda

Don DeLillo · 234 pages

Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.

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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Tobias Wolff · 175 pages

Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the off

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Karate Chop: Stories

Dorthe Nors · 89 pages

A collection of stories explores the mundane and the dangerous in daily life, including tales of a husband obsessed with female serial killers and a bureaucrat who converts to Buddhism to gain power.

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