The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted.In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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A volume containing the novella, "Victims", and stories "Heritage" and "Cancer". The book offers a vision of the situation in Ulster that ranges from childhood confrontations to the force of passion which leads adults to reprisals and murder.

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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In sharply evoked settings that range from the wilds of Northern Greece to the beaches of Cape Cod, these intensely dramatic tales chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions. The lives in them seethe with love, hate,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the World falls away leaving only the lovers. Love...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Unique and highly erotic, Cannibals is a novel of eighty-eight bulletins that reveal the fractured essence of our age. Characters wallow in bad jokes and bad sex, and trade happiness and pain as we enter their lives and then abruptly leave again, seemingly at random.

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a new front...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-14

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Celebrated as a novelist of breathtaking historical range and depth, Adam Thorpe is also an accomplished and celebrated writer of short fiction, and the stories collected here show his deftness with character, his enormous versatility of voice.In the title story, an...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without question - one of the finest contemporary examples of the short story as a genre. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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Four of these outstanding Thai short stories are published in English for the first time. The others appeared first in the Bangkok Post. All mark new trends in Thai fiction writing and deserve the widest readership....

Editeur : Thaifiction Publishing
Parution : 2010-12-06
Collection : ThaiFiction
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Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, A.L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God - but it is simply love that she's missing. She can't find it...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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A variety of styles and moods by seven leading Thai short story writers of today:A traffic-wise couple – Sila KomchaiBlood buds – Sila KomchaiThe lookers-on – Korn SiriwatthanoA bamboo bridge over rapids – Seksan PrasertkulFriends – Seksan PrasertkulThe muzzle – Suchart...

Editeur : Thaifiction Publishing
Parution : 2010-11-29
Collection : ThaiFiction
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A collection of five erotic stories with mixed themes and explicit sex brought to you by Xcite Books, winner's of ETO's Best Erotic Book Brand four years in a row!In The Back Seat by Esmeralda GreeneJake's gorgeous sister in law, Barb, has always flirted with him...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2010-11-12

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A collection of five erotic stories with mixed and varied themes.Life Model by Izzy FrenchLisa's exhibitionistic streak means she can't resist answering Mark's advert for a life model. Sitting naked while this good-looking artist and his students sketch her makes her...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2010-10-21

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The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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His first major book of fiction: lyrical, personal, mythical, hilarious and mesmeric stories that shed new light on both the US and the writer through whose eyes we access this compelling and resonant land.

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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