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A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire ... More

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In each of these 14 stories, Dubus uncovers the mysteries of ordinary life as his characters wrestle with love, faith, and luck--often perseverant, ... More

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Beattie, a master of the short form, delivers a collection of all the storiesshe has published in "The New Yorker."

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Well before his memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army were published to great acclaim, Tobias Wolff had already proven himself one of America ... More

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This collection of eight stories by the award-winning author of "The Good Brother" captures the lives of men shaped by the rough, isolated culture of ... More

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Ozick's latest work of fiction brings together four long stories, including the novella-length "Dictation," that showcase this incomparable writer's ... More

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Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her - until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood. Joyce has settled into ... More

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In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle ... More

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In his dazzling new book of stories, Butler explores America by finding artistic inspiration in an unlikely and fascinating place--the backs of ... More

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From the award-winning author of "The Gardens of Kyoto" comes a witty novel about the lives of a group of women--once 1950s country-club housewives; ... More

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In these eight stories, Charles Baxter displays once again "the ability to orchestrate the details of day-to-day reality into surprising patterns of ... More

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The great diversity of Shirley Jackson's work, from humor to the exploration of the human psyche, is showcased in these memorable stories. In this ... More

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Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing ... More

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A prize-winning young writer's finely crafted and imaginative debut takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio in a fiercely ... More

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The less-than-innocents abroad in these daring short novels by the critically acclaimed author of Primitive People are Americans in Europe, involved ... More

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Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more; yet it is the human condition with all its highs and lows which is portrayed in these hilarious ... More

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Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, ... More

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The 'People in Glass Houses' work for an American-based concern devoted to 'inflicting improvement' the world over. Amongst them are sloppy but ... More

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This insightful and witty collection of recently published stories by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson explores issues of identity ... More

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Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant ... More

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From one of America's premier fiction authors--a writer ahead of his time--comes a sampling of the intimate, funny, and odd stories he has written ... More

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In "Leavers' Events," a teenage girl awaits exam results and has a sexual encounter with a teacher that she hopes will define her. In "Sunday's Child ... More

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En El informe de Brodie, Jorge Luis Borges realiza una evolucion imprevista en su estetica. A diferencia de El aleph y Ficciones, que abundan en ... More

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In a collection of short stories crackling with originality, dark wit, and a devastating vision of "normal" life on the brink of desperation and ... More

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Heartbreaking and haunting, the stories in this electrifying debut collectionexplore the deep chasm between expectations and reality and the ways in ... More

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