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Edith Pearlman · 278 pages
Presents a collection of short stories full of teenage drug use, anorexia, cruise-ship stowaways, and a widowed nail tech who finds herself falling for a client.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 273 pages
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg: Stories
Deborah Eisenberg · 986 pages
Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans · 240 pages
Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.
Beginners
Raymond Carver · 173 pages
The unedited version of 'What we talk about when we talk about Love" before it would be cut by Carver's editor and mentor.
There's Something I Want You to Do
Charles Baxter · 230 pages
"The ten inter-related stories in [this collection] are held together by a surreally intricate web of cause and effect--one that slowly ensnares both fictional bystanders and ... readers"--Dust jacket flap.
Minimum of Two
Tim Winton · 153 pages
A Permanent Member of the Family
Russell Banks
You Have a Friend In 10A
Maggie Shipstead · 272 pages
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Amy Bloom · 181 pages
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."--The New YorkerA great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. R
We Live in Water
Jess Walter · 177 pages
"We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kid
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
In the Country
Mia Alvar · 347 pages
"Mia Alvar's ... debut gives us a vivid ... picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back"--
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Elissa Schappell · 304 pages
"From the acclaimed author of Use Me, eight provocative and darkly funny linked stories that explore the commonly shared, but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers, mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day"--
Half in Love: Stories
Maile Meloy · 176 pages
How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers · 224 pages
Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages
The Book of Other People
Zadie Smith · 304 pages
The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at 4:30a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to swee
The Safety of Objects
A.M. Homes · 178 pages
Werewolves In Their Youth
Michael Chabon · 212 pages
Le divorce, l'abandon et la nostalgie sont au coeur des neufs nouvelles qui composent ce recueil, excepté la dernière qui fait un clin d'oeil à la "pulp fiction". L'auteur choisit le ton de la comédie et de l'ironie mordante pour ces récits.
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 pages
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,
When it Happens to You
Molly Ringwald · 272 pages
A collection of interlinked stories that explores the numerous betrayals, big and small, that one grapples with across a lifetime.
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.