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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 Unknown Errors of Our Lives
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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A collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. The tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with Divakaruni's unique understanding of the human spirit.
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Ghostwritten: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 1 Oct 2001
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| David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. |
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The Bridegroom: Stories
by Ha Jin
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: 1 Sep 2001
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| Reversals, transformations, and surprises abound in these assured stories. Parables for our times--with a hint of the reckless and the absurd that we have come to expect from Ha Jin--The Bridegroom offers tales both mischievous and wise. |
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
by Amy Bloom
Hardcover: Jul 2000
Paperback: 1 Jul 2001
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| Transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose. |
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On the Fringe: and Other Uncommon Tales of Golf
by Gregory G. Barton
Paperback: 1 Jun 2001
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| These extraordinary stories will please readers of short fiction, particularly if golf takes up a part of their lives. |
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Pastoralia
by George Saunders
Hardcover: May 2000
Paperback: 1 Jun 2001
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| Set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light. |
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Speaking With The Angel
by Nick Hornby
Paperback: 1 Feb 2001
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| Twelve completely new stories, written by twelve undeniably imaginative voices. Speaking with the Angel is at turns clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, and wicked. This is what they meant by original. |
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
Hardcover: Feb 2000
Paperback: 1 Feb 2001
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| Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader. |
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