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Stories
by Bernhard Schlink
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by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Jan 2009
Read Reviews"Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead.
by Mark Slouka
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsThe Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance.
by Olaf Olafsson
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by Karen Russell
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsA collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable.
by Roxana Robinson
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsPowerfully and affectingly examines the complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, and fine - and they reaffirm Roxana Robinson's place at the forefront of modern literature.
by Lara Vapnyar
Published Dec 2004
Read ReviewsAdept 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.
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
by Amy Bloom
Published Jul 2001
Read ReviewsTranscendent 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.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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