Desperate People on the Edge of Existence

Explore powerful books about desperate people on the edge of existence. Discover gripping stories of survival, resilience, and human struggle in this curated collection.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Raymond Carver

The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, …
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The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s …
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This Other Eden

by Michael Hemmingson

Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man …
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Badass Horror

by Michael Hemmingson

Seven stories written by some of the best writers of modern fiction including Garry Kilworth, Ron Damien Malfi, Michael Boatman, and Michael Hemmingson reach to …
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Women

by Charles Bukowski

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze …
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Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs

Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the …
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