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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 14 Apr 2009
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| Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. |
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Love Stories in This Town
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Paperback: 7 Apr 2009
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| From San Francisco to Savannah, Montana to Texas, Amanda Eyre Ward’s characters are united in their fervent search to find a place where they truly belong. Her stories are imbued with humor, clear-eyed insight, and emotional richness. |
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
by Kevin Wilson
Paperback: 1 Apr 2009
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| Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both. |
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 6 Jan 2009
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| "Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer."— Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead. |
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. |
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The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas
by Paul Theroux
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 18 Sep 2008
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| A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. |
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Cheating at Canasta: Stories: Stories
by William Trevor
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008
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| From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us. |
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
by Vincent Lam
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of today’s doctors, patients, and hospitals. |
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