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Short Stories & Essays
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
by Sherman Alexie
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 8 Oct 2013
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| An indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Sherman Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. |
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Scenes from Village Life
by Amos Oz
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 25 Sep 2012
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| A portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world's most admired writers. |
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This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Diaz
Hardcover: 11 Sep 2012
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| The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. |
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Battleborn: Stories
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 6 Aug 2013
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| Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. |
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Homesick
by Roshi Fernando
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Jul 2013
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| A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful. |
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Orientation: And Other Stories
by Daniel Orozco
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. |
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Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
by Lucia Perillo
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 20 May 2013
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| Set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Lucia Perillo's story collection is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots. |
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Pulse: Stories
by Julian Barnes
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 21 Feb 2012
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| After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. |
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