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Carrying the Body
Elise, a young woman with a mysteriously ill son, returns to her childhood home years after running away with a lover. Now destitute, she begins to search for an object …
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In the Year of Long Division
"Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through …
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Loverboy
A mother's obsession with her only child, a son named Paul conceived in a loveless one-night stand, puts his life in danger. A first novel. Reprint.
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The Border of Truth
At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe …
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Where the Road Bottoms Out
Where the Road Bottoms Out delivers us to the scenes of a young woman's battles against the various forces that would rob her of her freedom -- the relations that …
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Trailer Girl and Other Stories
“I talk like a lady who knows what she wants” is how the vagrant begins her story in “Trailer Girl”. As she struggles to rescue what she says is a …
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The Ice at the Bottom of the World
With a distinctive and original voice, Mark Richard's stories capture characters on the fringe of society, and illuminate the goodness at the heart of their Southern, down-and-out lies. Full of …
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The Spectacle of the Body
A debut in fiction by a writer from Alabama. In Winter Bodies, a man shaves off the body hair of his ailing wife, The Change in Union City follows the …
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What Begins with Bird
"What Begins with Bird is both an investigation of family relationships and a sophisticated study of language and rhythm. Holland creates an exhilarating tension between the satisfactions of meaning and …
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Pastoralia
A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection …
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The Age of Wire and String
"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.
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The Way the Family Got Away
This is the way the family got away. They packed everything they could fit into the car, placed the body of their dead brother in the toy box and put …
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Undone
In Maine, a man fakes his death to avoid repaying a two-million-dollar loan. He suffers a "heart attack" and with the help of a doctor and an undertaker is buried …
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The Believer, Issue 61
The Believer monthly books and culture magazine is three-time finalist for National Magazine Awards in General Excellence and Design. An amiable yet rigorous forum for books and book criticism, The …
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Under the Light
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Excitability
Excitability collects the best of Diane Williams's bold, often hilarious, stories of love, sex, child-rearing, death, and space aliens -- stories that are (in the words of Bradford Morrow) "wry, …
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Florida
Placed in the care of relatives at a young age, Alice Fivey struggles to adapt within numerous homes and eventually finds refuge in books, a childhood that leads her to …
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Nightwork
A collection of stories on relations between parents and children. In What Have You Been Doing? a mother teaches her son open-mouth kissing, while Daywork is on the guilt of …
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Dear Mr. Capote
Gordon Lish's first novel tells the story of a serial killer who wants Truman Capote to write his biography. In the letter the killer writes to Capote, the details of …
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Mourner at the Door
A collection of stories captures the significance of the trivial details and everyday experiences that often add up to create the majority of an individual's memory
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period …
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The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, …
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All Things are Labor
The enigmatic stories in this haunting collection deal with individuals striving to live outside the dominant American culture--people who do not want to be incorporated, appropriated, or consumed. Their battles …
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Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
"This imagination of Elkin's sneaks up, tickles, surprises, shocks and kills. It makes stories that are deadly funny." The New York Times
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Cathedral
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). “A writer …
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Tin God
Tin God takes us on a hilarious trip through the weird heart of the Midwest, a journey that passes across centuries and burrows into the unexplainable mysteries of what it …
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The Complete Stories
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve …
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Correction of Drift
It was called the crime of the century, and it was front-page news: the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Correction of Drift imagines the private lives behind the headlines of the case, …
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
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The Lover
A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication …
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Collaborators
A stunning, poetic novel about a nearly overpowering relationship, from the author of the acclaimed short story collection, Places in the World a Woman Could Walk.
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Rot
Tracks a father who's a Mennonite, a pacifist, who's determined to redefine power, rethink what it is to be good.
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Places in the World a Woman Could Walk
""Places in the World a Woman Could Walk" is deeply felt and bitingly precise. The author's dual professions of farmer and poet give the stories two gifts: an intimate, gritty …
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Ways of Dying
A professional mourner, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village, at the funeral of a young boy, and joins forces with her to heal the pain of …