|
Short Stories & Essays
|
|
Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
|
|
Page 13 of
14
|
Total books found: 106 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
Hardcover: Feb 2000
Paperback: 1 Feb 2001
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Heaney)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader. |
|
|
|
Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life
by Judith Viorst
Hardcover: 1 Sep 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Viorst)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| A collection of
poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the
perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty. |
|
|
|
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
by Kurt Vonnegut
Hardcover: Aug 1999
Paperback: 1 Aug 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Vonnegut)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Twenty-four of Vonnegut's favorite stories - never published before in book form with a new preface for the occasion. |
|
|
|
Hearts In Atlantis
by Stephen King
Hardcover: Sep 1999
Paperback: 1 Aug 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (King)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. |
|
|
|
Local Girls
by Alice Hoffman
Hardcover: Jun 1999
Paperback: 1 May 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Hoffman)
Author interview (Hoffman)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments, and devotion. |
|
|
|
Beyond The Great Snow Mountains
by Louis L'Amour
Hardcover: Oct 1999
Paperback: 1 Apr 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (L'Amour)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Vintage L'Amour stories of men and women pitted against impossible odds, yet struggling to do what's right. |
|
|
|
For The Relief of Unbearable Urges
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover: Apr 1999
Paperback: 1 Mar 2000
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Englander)
Author interview (Englander)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| A work of stunning authority and imagination - a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new storyteller. |
|
|
|
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore
Hardcover: Sep 1998
Paperback: 1 Sep 1999
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Moore)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
« prev
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
next » |
| |
