| |
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother.A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient.A queer metal band’s...
Editeur :
Metonymy Press
Parution :
2021-11-23
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
This is an omnibus collection of the best work of this outstanding modern master of the short story, selected by himself from such volumes as "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me", "Clorinda Walks in Heaven", "The Black Dog", "The Field of Mustard", and many others.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-10
epub sans DRM
|
Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-09
epub sans DRM
|
In The Sleep of Apples, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with passion and consummate skill about nine closely linked characters who walk the tightrope of survival. Set in a gritty Montreal neighbourhood that’s been slowly gentrifying over the last two decades, troubled...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2021-09-30
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
This sensational debut collection of short stories takes readers on a tour of the astonishment inside the ordinary, the quotidian. Meet the happy wunderkind inside the sad elderly lover, the vulnerable teenager inside the high-powered lawyer, the loving father inside...
Editeur :
Thistledown Press
Parution :
2021-09-30
epub sans DRM
|
A memorable, edgy debut exploring the climate crisis and young women on the verge of transformation
Edgy and darkly humourous, these stories introduce us to women grappling with climate, fertility, and their relationships with each other, all as they teeter on the verge...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2021-09-27
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
Winner of the 2022 Canadian Jewish Literary AwardMasterful, hopeful stories about ordinary people taking small, bold steps into the unknown
These ten compelling and delightful stories highlight ordinary people, introverts, mostly living quiet lives -- until they take...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2021-09-13
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction)Finalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2021-09-07
ePub
|
Aaron Schneider’s What We Think We Know is a debut collection of short fiction that tests, expands, and sometimes explodes the limits of the short story, setting conventional forms alongside fragmented narratives, playing with perspective, and incorporating the...
Editeur :
Gordon Hill Press
Parution :
2021-09-07
epub sans DRM
|
In these 12 short stories, scurrying insects and luminous jellyfish reveal a predatory world of childhood fairy tales, lurking shadows, and unrelenting fevers. Individuals are swallowed up by cities and bogs in a celebration of nature and humanity, in all their...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-08-30
epub sans DRM
|
Based primarily on explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen’s transcriptions of oral tales, the stories in this anthology of old Greenlandic myths and legends have been passed down through generations. This collection features stories about children and young...
Editeur :
Inhabit Media
Parution :
2021-08-12
epub sans DRM
|
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as...
Editeur :
Metonymy Press
Parution :
2021-04-27
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
Co-Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionPatricia Robertson’s new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing characters, and sophisticated skill. Readers will travel with...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2021-02-09
ePub
|
The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from...
Editeur :
Christmas Editions
Parution :
2020-12-16
epub sans DRM
|
Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award
in the short fiction category!Finalist for Trade
Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2020-11-15
ePub
|
The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife's death, a lost child, sibling rivalries. Tourists in their own lives,...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
Parution :
2020-10-01
epub sans DRM
|
This ebook contains O. Henry's complete works.
This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking...
Editeur :
Pandora's Box
Parution :
2020-06-16
epub sans DRM
|
In these stories seers and vagabonds, addicts, and gardeners succeed and sometimes fail at creating new kinds of community against apocalyptic backdrops. They build gardens in the ruins, transport seeds and songs from one world to another and from dreams to waking life....
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2020-05-01
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
|
When life is upended, what do you do? Do you remain as you were, trapped in a form of stasis? Or do you accept your losses and move forward? These questions and more are the heart of The Handsome Man.These linked stories follow several years of the life of a young man...
Editeur :
Book*hug Press
Parution :
2020-04-28
PDF sans DRM
|
Traci Skuce’s Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up the heart's desire in a pink bubble by...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2020-04-15
ePub
|