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In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-05-10
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'No one ever sees me write. One of the triumphs of fiction is that it is created in the dark. It leaves my house in a plain wrapper, with no bloodstains. Unlike me, my stories are whole and indestructible.' In The Collected Stories, Paul Theroux's canvas stretches from...
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Penguin
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2012-05-03
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Here, from the remarkable novelist who wrote Ferris Beach, Tending to Virginia, July 7th, and The Cheer Leader, is Jill McCorkle's first book of short fiction. These eleven sparkling, uninhibited stories address her favorite subject: women who take matters into their...
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Algonquin Books
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2012-04-21
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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content...
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Penguin
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2012-04-05
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NEAR NEIGHBOURS introduces an eccentric world very like our own, peopled by characters who live for football, music and sex but who are also monopedes, cross-gender doppelgangers, window-fetishists or sock-throwers. A master of broad farce and the paranoid monologue,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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Digital download exclusive short story: a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identity from the incomparable Fiona Walker, ahead of her new novel The Love Letter.Allegra North's second thoughts about splitting with childhood sweetheart Francis need a first-class stamp....
Editeur :
Sphere
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2012-03-30
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Recently discovered in the New York Public Library archives, these four short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner are as sharply insightful and observant as all her writing. They are published for the first time exclusively in ebook format alongside the new editions of...
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Virago
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2012-03-01
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These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire, from Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud, introduces us to an astonishing array of characters who time and again find themselves face to face with what they didn’t know they didn’t know, at the exact...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-03-01
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Jim Rogers once had everything: a successful career, the love of a beautiful woman, a Manhattan penthouse and more money than he knew what to do with. Now it had all gone wrong and he was in a seedy hotel in Panama realising that the prostitute he'd just been with had...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past and present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns and high...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-29
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Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection.A man barges into a writer's house and,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-23
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A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a masterful collection...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-02-09
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Light Lifting is a suite of darkly urban, unflinching elegies. The seven stories each encompass a keenly observed, immersive world, rooted firmly in the real life of work and family. They are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-02
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_________________‘Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.’ AJ PEARCE_________________A young journalist and her top-secret assignment. An exclusive straight to...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-02-02
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From bestselling novelist Marie Joseph - a collection of heartwarming, life-enhancing stories that show her at her very best.In them Marie Joseph explores the many aspects of love as it was in the sixties and seventies - its nostalgia, tenderness, pitfalls and moments...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-01-31
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From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Phaithoon Thanya or Chatcharin Chaiwat, eleven of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2011.as if it began with the rain – JADET KAMJORNDETLanta, Carrie May...
Editeur :
Thaifiction Publishing
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2012-01-27
Collection :
ThaiFiction
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'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' MetroA beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-05
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A hotshot young lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the aid of his irresponsible kid brother, only to realise he's a pawn in a treacherous scheme. A lonely professor, frequently regaled with outrageous tales by the office handyman, suddenly fears...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-05
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Beyond the Blue Mountains is a collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.The fourteen warmly humorous stories inBeyond the Blue Mountains range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-12-29
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