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Like Life
Eight short stories.
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Hotel World
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, …
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The Whole Story and Other Stories
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run …
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Driving the Heart and Other Stories
Thirteen stories, some on medical themes. The story, Detox, describes a detoxification clinic which caters to children, while The Coroner's Report deals with the routine in a morgue.
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The Quick and the Dead
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in …
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night
In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied …
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Crocodile Soup
Dear Gert, If you won't write to me, then could you send me some money? I believe you have a good job. A few hundred pounds would be helpful. Don't …
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Valencia
The rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco's radical lesbian underground is laid bare in this action-packed novel, which follows a young gay woman down into the often dangerous world inhabited by …