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Slow Learner: Early Stories

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Varieties of Disturbance

Lydia Davis · 240 pages

"In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go t

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Screwjack

Hunter S. Thompson · 64 pages

Collects three short stories in Thompson's unique gonzo style: a chronicle of his first experience with mescaline, the death of a friend, and a letter by the fictitious Raoul Duke.

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Black Vodka: Ten Stories

Deborah Levy · 125 pages

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Sixty Stories

Donald Barthelme · 464 pages

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The Tent

Margaret Atwood · 158 pages

The Tent is a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2006. Although classified with Atwood’s short fiction, The Tent has been characterized as an “experimental” collection of “fictional essays" or “mini-fictions.” The work also incorporates line drawings by Atwood. Source: [Wikipedia][1] [1]: https://g.co/kgs/6Gge4p

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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

Jorge Luis Borges · 167 pages

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Voodoo Heart

Scott Snyder · 288 pages

Scott Snyder's protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder's wondrous imagination there's a thin membrane betwee

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Bad Behavior: Stories

Mary Gaitskill · 203 pages

Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)

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Bliss Montage

Ling Ma · 228 pages

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Fine Just the Way it Is

Annie Proulx · 240 pages

Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy. About Author: Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping N

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Pricksongs & Descants

Robert Coover · 256 pages

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Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970

Richard Brautigan · 173 pages

**Overview:** Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition : Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories

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Stories and Texts for Nothing

Samuel Beckett · 140 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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Lost in the Funhouse

John Barth · 201 pages

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Not the End of the World

Kate Atkinson · 278 pages

Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Missy introduces him to a world he never knew existed.

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Tenth of December

George Saunders · 272 pages

In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title stor

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Three Moments of an Explosion

China Mieville · 406 pages

A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.

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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 323 pages

A nasty anecdote -- The eternal husband -- Bobok -- The meek one -- The dream of a ridiculous man.

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The Voice Imitator

Thomas Bernhard · 114 pages

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The Iraqi Christ

Hassan Blasim · 140 pages

This collection of stories explores the chaos of post-invasion Baghdad. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by a suicide bomber into swapping places. A composer of crossword puzzles survives a car-bomb, only to find himself haunted by the spirit of one of its victims. A victim of looting flees armed robbers but falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which s

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The Whore's Child and Other Stories

Richard Russo · 288 pages

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Girl With Curious Hair

David Foster Wallace · 373 pages

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