Short Stories

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Heartbreaker

$9.50

In her debut story collectionHeartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence...

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The Story of a Non-Marrying Man

$5.00

Johnny Blakeworthy was a polite and gentle bigamist, a vagrant who concluded each of his many marriages with a thank-you...

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Homeland And Other Stories

$7.00

With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, Animal Dreams and...

Five

$6.00

Contains A home for the highland cattle, The other woman, Eldorado, The antheap and Hunger.

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Fifth Child

$5.00

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, of a family torn apart by...

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The Beautiful Indifference

$12.00

Winner of the Portico PrizeWinner of the Edge Hill University Short Story PrizeShort-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story...

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How We Are Hungry

$12.50

Dave Eggers presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do...

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Your Duck Is My Duck

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A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously...

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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.In the...

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Ship Fever

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1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of...

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Freedom

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Freedom is an unique anthology of short fiction by some of the world`s most celebrated writers. Each contribution reimagines one...

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Read Hard

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This volume collects the finest essays and articles from the four-time National Magazine Award?nominated Believer magazine. The book combines all...

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