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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Burning Bright: Stories
by Ron Rash
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| In Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker), solidifies his reputation as a major contemporary American literary artist. |
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Too Much Happiness: Stories
by Alice Munro
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 2 Nov 2010
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| In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. |
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 21 Sep 2010
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| One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. |
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories
by Yiyun Li
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 14 Sep 2010
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| In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. |
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The Farmer's Daughter: Novellas
by Jim Harrison
Hardcover: Dec 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010
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| The Farmer’s Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today. |
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories
by Maile Meloy
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| Award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. |
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Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
Paperback: 8 Jun 2010
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| An exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine. |
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The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. |
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