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Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri · 208 pages

Title: Interpreter of Maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the lives of Indian and Indian-American characters who are grappling with issues of identity, displacement, and the complexities of human relationships. Here’s a brief summary of each story in the collection: "A Temporary Matter": A couple,

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Dear Life: Stories

Alice Munro · 336 pages

In story after story in this brilliant collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ri

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Last Night: Stories

James Salter · 132 pages

A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author's signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 159 pages

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

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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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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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How We Are Hungry

Dave Eggers · 224 pages

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Last Evenings on Earth

Roberto Bolano · 224 pages

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The Complete Short Stories

Ernest Hemingway · 499 pages

Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.

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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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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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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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The Age of Grief

Jane Smiley · 213 pages

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Summerhouse, Later: Stories

Judith Hermann · 224 pages

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The Collected Stories

Richard Yates · 496 pages

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This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz · 240 pages

This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.

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Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Elizabeth McCracken · 240 pages

A collection of stories navigates the fragile space between love and loneliness, including the title story in which a family finds their lives irrevocably changed by their teenage daughter's risky behavior.

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Rock Springs

Richard Ford · 252 pages

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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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Sabrina & Corina

Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages

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Selected Stories

Andre Dubus · 496 pages

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Men Without Women

Haruki Murakami, murakami haruki · 240 pages

"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky

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