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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Dark Roots
by Cate Kennedy
Paperback: 10 Feb 2008
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| Devastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story. |
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Valentines
by Olaf Olafsson
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| A haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children. |
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The View from Castle Rock: Stories
by Alice Munro
Hardcover: Nov 2006
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. |
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The Lives of Rocks: Stories
by Rick Bass
Hardcover: Nov 2006
Paperback: 17 Oct 2007
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| Rick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form. |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 9 Oct 2007
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| A collection of short-stories from widely acclaimed author Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. |
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Ancestor Stones: A Novel
by Aminatta Forna
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 10 Sep 2007
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| A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa’s past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live. |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 28 Aug 2007
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| In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever |
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
by Karen Russell
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 14 Aug 2007
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| A collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. |
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