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John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistJohn Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-07
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Imagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting home. How would your fame help you then?What would happen if someone got hold of...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2010-09-02
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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-31
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' ...
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Penguin
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2010-08-05
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Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny town in Southern Ohio.The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-07-31
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Tantalising and seductive short stories from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Strawberry Thief... Perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson and Kate Mosse as well as readers of Eve Chase and Stacey Halls.'Evocative, mystical and funny - perfect for curling up on the...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-07-06
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Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-07-01
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Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-06-30
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Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss' A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2010-06-28
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SOONER OR LATER THE DEAD CATCH UP....'A true spine-tingler...will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams' HARLAN COBEN'Wild, mesmerizing...a Valentine from hell' NEW YORK TIMESJudas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual,...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2010-06-10
ePub
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Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-27
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In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; the even...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-25
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Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between. We shift from a diary chronicling the dangers of life as a woman in the bleak 2040s, to two students falling in love...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-06
ePub
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The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime.The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-05-06
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Soldier, pimp or artist? What is Rart’s real nature? Is history repeating itself? By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers, a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguities that can be read at many levels....
Editeur :
Thaifiction Publishing
Parution :
2010-05-01
Collection :
ThaiFiction
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If there is a thread running through Simon Robson's brilliant collection of stories it is the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, of adult consciousness from the vividness of childhood.His protagonists are often unlikely...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
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Quickies - a collection of bestselling short, sexy erotica from Black LaceSome girls strip away more than inhibitions to get what they need ...After work, Laura knows no restraint when it comes to restraint ...Sometimes pick-up trucks contain the sexiest loads...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
ePub
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Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-01
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In the third volume of Madame B's saucy tales our intriguing hostess tells all. Ten women confess their stories of seduction, revealing their most intimate and devilish desires and steamy sexual encounters. Jet - a young woman finds herself joining a very exclusive club...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2010-03-30
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In this fourth collection of sexy tales told to hostess Madame B, ten women reveal all to our mysterious host. Nothing is out of bounds and passion is pushed to its very limit. Midas - long-distance love with a twist, as a lover's gift ensures his partner can still...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2010-03-30
ePub
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