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'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' PETER CRAVEN, Heat 'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace. 'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2009-03-02
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Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories - 'Bâtard',...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-01-29
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Born an old man, Benjamin Button lived a very curious life, backwardsWhen Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, for all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-01-01
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This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-12-26
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For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-12-02
ePub
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Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-11-27
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Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-11-17
ePub
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Discover five short stories from the bestselling author of Trainspotting.In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive by armed Mexicans; in 'The DOGS of Lincoln Park', a mysterious Korean chef may or may not have something to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-10-30
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19th Century London in all its weird and grimy glory. Reality is peeling slowly away like an old circus fly-poster. The clock is ticking towards the City's doom, but it will come in a stranger guise than you, in your wildest literary fever dreams, could ever conceive of...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2008-09-18
ePub
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Now in paperback: Twelve interwoven stories follow four young and ambitious doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and terrifying new viruses. They fall in love as they study for their...
Editeur :
Weinstein Books
Parution :
2008-09-16
ePub
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'The stories in Refresh, Refresh are big-hearted and drunk and dangerous, and there's a heightened, unnerving vibe as you travel through Percy's world. You never know where you will end up ... but you can be sure that he'll actually take you somewhere.'Dan Chaon Here is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you’ll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-08-28
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'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...'
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-12
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The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-06-05
ePub
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Everything you need to know
about Thai literature,
from its origins to Thai fiction today.
Literary criteria used in the selection
of the 20 best novels of the last century,
from The circus of life
to The white shadow:
plots – excerpts – critical...
Editeur :
Thaifiction Publishing
Parution :
2008-06-01
Collection :
THAI MODERN CLASSICS
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Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal''No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-05-01
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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In ‘The Fugitive’ an office worker...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-04-03
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one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-03-27
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An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars makes high comedy out of modern everyday life in China. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle his old man out of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-02-28
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