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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This collection combines stories from his previous books THE SILVER AGE and THREE EVENINGS. In these stories James Lasdun views greed and excess from illuminating angles and the impulse of those who own too much to dispossess themselves. He examines the callousness by...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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A vintage collection of short stories set in the heart of Dublin, from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.'A master storyteller' Marian Keyes‘A brilliant writer’ Jilly Cooper------------------A society hostess entertains her husband's...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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A vintage collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.'A master storyteller' Marian Keyes‘A brilliant writer’ Jilly Cooper------------------Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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In this second collection of sexy secrets as told to hostess Madame B, we discover a world of delicious and dangerous delights. No fantasy is too extreme, no indulgence or scenario off limits.Velvet Underground - an everyday Tube journey takes an erotic turn for a young...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master.A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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"[A] remarkable collection . . . Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find." —People The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle’s world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into—and then get out...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2010-09-14

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