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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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The Little Black Book of Stories
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 8 Feb 2005
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| These unforgettable stories are by turns haunting, funny, sparkling, and scary. Byatt’s Little Black Book adds a deliciously dark note to her skill in mixing folk and fairy tales with everyday life. |
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Sightseeing: Short Stories
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 28 Jan 2005
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| A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse. |
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Our Kind: A Novel in Stories
by Kate Walbert
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 1 Jan 2005
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| A thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo. |
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There Are Jews In My House: Stories
by Lara Vapnyar
Hardcover: Dec 2003
Paperback: 7 Dec 2004
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| Adept at both snapshots and long exposures, Lara Vapnyar writes of life's adventures and possibilities, its disappointments and unexpected turns, with delicate humor, brilliant timing, and striking emotional honesty. |
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Elizabeth Costello
by J M Coetzee
Hardcover: Oct 2003
Paperback: 24 Oct 2004
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| Coetzee's latest work of fiction offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind. |
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Down To A Soundless Sea
by Thomas Steinbeck
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Dec 2003
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| Deeply felt and richly imagined, full of compelling drama and historical authenticity, Thomas Steinbeck's stories are as memorable and rugged as the coastline that inspired them. Click the excerpt link to read a complete short story. |
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A Brief History of The Flood
by Jean Harfenist
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003
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| In this funny, sad and somehow good natured book Jean Harfenist explores the interface between love and dysfunction through young Lillian whose voice will stick with you long after you turn the last page. |
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The Whore's Child
by Richard Russo
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003
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| With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers these short stories capture both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority. |
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