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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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My Father's Tears
by John Updike
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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| John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. |
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 11 May 2010
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| The Pulitzer Prize-winning author— "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. |
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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| The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted — Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! — to the Russian classics. |
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
by Wells Tower
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 2 Feb 2010
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| In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. |
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 1 Feb 2010
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| A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan. |
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Best European Fiction 2010
by Aleksandar Hemon
Paperback: 15 Dec 2009
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| The inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. |
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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
by Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Oct 2009
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| Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation. |
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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| The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” |
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