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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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In Persuasion Nation
by George Saunders
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 6 Mar 2007
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| In a series of short stories, George Saunders explores consumerism gone haywire in a country and era somewhat like our own. |
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Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories
by Ismail Kadare
Hardcover: 6 Nov 2006
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| In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny. |
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A Perfect Stranger: And other stories
by Roxana Robinson
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 14 Mar 2006
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| Powerfully and affectingly examines the complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, and fine - and they reaffirm Roxana Robinson's place at the forefront of modern literature. |
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God Lives In St. Petersburg: and Other Stories
by Tom Bissell
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 3 Jan 2006
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| Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes. |
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Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Hardcover: Oct 2004
Paperback: 1 Nov 2005
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| Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love–between men and women, between friends, between parents and children–that are the stuff of all our lives. |
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Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men
by Scott Wolven
Hardcover: 12 Apr 2005
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| Powered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis
Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut. |
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Blackbird House
by Alice Hoffman
Hardcover: Jul 2004
Paperback: 29 Mar 2005
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| Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. |
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 8 Mar 2005
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| A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality. |
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