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by Alice Munro
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by Edna O'Brien
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsCollected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom)
by Olga Grushin
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsThe internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.
by Rose Tremain
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsRose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories.
by Edith Pearlman
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA new story collection from the author of Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award.
by Andre Dubus III
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsIn this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love.
by Elizabeth Strout
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsElizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prizewinning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in ...
by Per Petterson
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsSometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine By Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses and I Curse the River of Time.
by Richard Ford
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.
by William Trevor
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsIn his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.
by Richard Russo
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsBridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.
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