Anthologies featuring bestselling authors alongside rising stars. Short story collections from some of our beloved authors with Roald Dahl, Raymond Carver and Anita Desai among the better known
Anthologies & Short Stories
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Man V. Nature
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Something Rich and Strange
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Was a Revolutionary
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Trigger Warning
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc After the Fireworks
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mr. and Mrs. Baby
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Warning
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc To Be a Man
Book SynopsisO, The Oprah Magazine, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Esquire, Bustle, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Brooklyn Based, Avenue BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNew York Times Editors'' Choice“Superb. . . . Krauss’s depictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to mind the work of Natalia Ginzburg in their psychological profundity, their intellectual rigor. . . . Krauss’s stories capture characters at moments in their lives when they’re hungry for experience and open to possibilities, and that openness extends to the stories themselves: narratives too urgent and alive for neat plotlines, simplistic resolutions or easy answers.” —Molly Antopol, New York Times Book Review “From a contemporary master, an astounding collection of ten globetrotting stories, each one a powerful dissection of the thorny connections between men and women. . . . Each story is masterfully crafted and deeply contemplative, barreling toward a shimmering, inevitable conclusion, proving once again that Krauss is one of our most formidable talents in fiction.” —EsquireIn one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women’s coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Half Wild
Book Synopsis“This heartbreakingly honest and authentic fiction will make you weep over, laugh at, and finally cheer for, mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, lovers and losers, and the human race in general. Half Wild is American fiction, and American literature, at its very best.”—Howard Frank Mosher, author of The Great Northern Express and Northern BordersSpanning nearly forty years, the stories in Robin MacArthur’s formidable debut give voice to the dreams, hungers, and fears of a diverse cast of Vermonters—adolescent girls, aging hippies, hardscrabble farmers, disconnected women, and solitary men. Straddling the border between civilization and the wild, they all struggle to make sense of their loneliness and longings in the stark and often isolating enclaves they call home—golden fields and white-veiled woods, dilapidated farmhouses and makeshift trailers, icy rivers and still lakes ro
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Fantastic Book of Everybodys Secrets
Book SynopsisEverybody has their secrets. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man’s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family’s holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerized by two children in a school playground, children she’s never met but whose names she knows well? All will be revealed . . . but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Book SynopsisNational BestsellerWith a new foreword by Jeff FeuerzeigA timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.“A startling achievement.”—Publishers Weekly This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness. Told in spare, lyrical prose, rich with imagination and dark humor, The
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The McBain Brief
Book SynopsisFrom the internationally admired creator of the 87th Precinct series come these tales featuring policemen and their work and displaying Ed McBain’s inimitable talents in shorter form.In this collection of short stories, bestselling author Ed McBain presents a varied and colorful cast of characters who run afoul of, then into, the arms of the law… a collector who loves his porcelain more than his daughter; a hooker who melts the heart of a tough cop; an ex-fighter who goes berserk at Christmas; an automobile dealer out for a funny business ride…Ed McBain’s bestselling works put him in the very top rank of crime writers. In The McBain Brief, he more than justifies his reputation as a master storyteller.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dictionary Stories Short Fictions and Other
Book Synopsis"Dictionary Stories isn’t just a book for word nerds, but for anyone for whom language and story matter. With this spark and a handful of stories shared online, Dictionary Stories was born.Trade Review“A revelation in remix; a book of joyous recombinations.” — Robin Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore “Dictionary Stories isn’t just a book for word nerds, but for anyone for whom language and story matter. Everybody, A-Z, will find themselves thoroughly in love with this book.” — Kory Stamper, lexicographer and editor for Merriam-Webster, and author of Word by Word “Jez has long been one of my favorite illustrators, and now he comes up with Dictionary Stories—sentences stolen from dictionaries and pasted together into tiny, delightful narratives. A brilliant literary remix.” — Austin Kleon, New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist “Until you read Dictionary Stories, you’ll never understand just how weird the dictionary really is. Jez Burrows’ Dictionary Stories is all of human emotion and experience, handily arranged in alphabetical order” — Erin McKean, former editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary and founder of Wordnik “Brilliantly, brazenly fun. Like a cabaret for word lovers.” — Sean Michaels, author of Giller Prize-winning novel Us Conductors “Burrows has a talent for a delightfully askew existentialism… The stories are wickedly short but exquisitely rendered, accompanied by whimsical, minimalist illustrations by the author. A fabulist remix of the English language and a tribute to clever lexicographers everywhere.” — Kirkus Reviews “[An] entirely original collection… With a deft eye for depth and irony, Burrows plucks seemingly inane phrases…and arranges them into haunting, hilarious, and human minidramas.” — Booklist “Uproarious and ingenious… What sounds like mere novelty turns out to be a revelation in Burrows’s hands, as unlikely sentences generate even more unlikely narratives. Dictionary Stories is a joyful celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Chaotically engaging...exemplary...majestic.” — KQED “A serendipitous reading experience...Burrows challenges our ideas of the writing process and unpacks our understanding of what is literary.” — Ploughshares “They’re absolutely addicting, and that is the highest praise I can bestow on this work—it is one task to bring good stories to people. It is another to bring a new game, a new form, a new diversion of the field. Burrows’ burrows are just that, and if you, or your friends, are the sort who love words and playing with them, you should seek out a copy of this fine new book.” — The Seattle Review of Books “Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the wild, elastic potential of language.” — McSweeny’s “The most original book to be published in quite some time.” — San Jose Mercury News “An ingenious addition to literary exploration.” — San Francisco Chronicle “A brilliant, inventive book.” — Psych Central “You’ll find everything from two-sentence short stories to a list of bands you probably haven’t heard of. We’ve never read anything quite like it.” — HelloGiggles
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc We Are Taking Only What We Need
Book SynopsisIn these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their controlThe ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that separates generations, from children confronting the fallibility of their own parents for the first time to adults finding themselves forced to start over again and again.In “Highway 18” a young Jehovah’s Witness going door to door with an expert field-service partner from up north is at a crossroads: will she go to college or continue to serve the church? “If You Hit Randall County, You’ve Gone Too Far” tells of a family trying to make it through a tense celebratory dinner for a son just out on bail. And in the collection’s title story, a young girl experiences loss for the first time in the fallout fr
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Notes
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Angel of Rome
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world''s most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again “solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds” (Esquire).
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Collected Fables
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Sportsmans Notebook
Book SynopsisTwenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlordsA Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece, is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth-century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a powerful and gripping series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia.These exquisitely rendered stories, now with a stirring introduction from Daniyal Mueenuddin, were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on importa
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Souvenir Museum Stories
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders: expatriates and repatriates, Vikings, travelling ventriloquists. . . . Whether it’s over the course of a honeymoon in Amsterdam or a day at a Texas water park, McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters’ lives.” — The New Yorker “Charming and sly, these 12 far-flung stories—from a Texas water park to a rugged Scottish island—share McCracken’s tender appreciation for flawed people (struggling lovers, a grieving mother, a puppeteer) just trying to communicate.” — People “Elizabeth McCracken’s impressive third story collection evoke moving depictions of marriage and parenthood, and love, betrayal, and loneliness…A steady stream of exquisite writing.” — The Boston Globe “The Souvenir Museum is McCracken's third story collection, and her understanding of how we stumble up against these painful realities unfurls on every page. Tuned into absurdities and disasters, she knows our losses are calamitous, our connections precarious…McCracken's prose is wry and exquisite, a good companion to her generous, comic observations.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “You know how Aaron Sorkin tilt-shifts reality to bring idealism to the forefront? McCracken is like that but for humor. In her realm, everything is funny — to somebody, if not always to the protagonist. Even the darkest and saddest moments may be laced with sweet, tall-tale absurdity. Her new collection The Souvenir Museum has more of what made her 2019 novel Bowlaway such a hit. It’s full of stories set in the real world but just cockeyed enough to pass as apocryphal family folklore told at a Thanksgiving dinner table once everybody’s full of pie and wine.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “McCracken knows all kinds of subtle, enticing secrets of the heart and conveys them in silky, transparent language.” — San Francisco Chronicle “If you’re tired of trying to pick something to watch on one of your half a dozen streaming services, maybe it’s time to read a short story instead. They may just be the perfect antidote to binge watching. Elizabeth McCracken’s latest collection ‘The Souvenir Museum,’ is a good place to start….Do yourself a favor and read the book. McCracken has delivered a lovely collection of stories.” — Associated Press “Deftly melding tragedy and comedy, McCracken displays her signature wit while examining how the bonds of family are tested and transformed over time.” — Austin Monthly “McCracken, herself, is a hard-working performer, an acrobat who dazzles with her verbal flexibility and lands the end of each tightly composed story with incredible skill — and feeling. Her inimitable images heighten the delight…McCracken's writing is never dull…[a]fantastic collection.” — NPR.org “Elizabeth McCracken’s latest (and best, so far) collection…there is, in these stories, a kind of compulsive noticing, and the resultant prose is so plush that it may be read happily for the language alone, though there is much more at work here….a novel’s worth of humor, tension, love, sorrow, and irrationality.” — Harvard Review “Wry, emotionally complex family stories. . . . McCracken is a tremendously sharp, soulful, and witty writer, rightfully considered one of finest American short story practitioners at work today.” — Literary Hub "I love short stories, I think that we’re not reading enough of them . . . [Elizabeth McCracken] is one of my favorites . . . her stories are about family and redemption, intimacy…Dive into this collection.” — Harlan Coben (on Today) “The master stylist and author of Bowlaway rolls another strike with this magnificent array of idiosyncratic love stories.” — Oprah Daily “Elizabeth McCracken is a master of the short story and each of the stories in this gem of a collection shows a different facet of the human experience, shining all the brighter for having had McCracken's attention paid to it for a little while.” — Refinery 29 “[A]n assured collection… McCracken opens up worlds in a mere sentence, and every page is illuminated with nuanced observations of human behavior.” — Booklist “McCracken’s sly, emotionally complex collection (after Bowlaway) focuses on characters uprooted from their usual surroundings. . . . Each story opens to reveal a whole life spent within the web of a family, chosen or not. Full of gems, this collection is a winner.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “McCracken . . . proves her mastery of short fiction with these 12 tightly structured, searingly realistic stories. . . . Enduring love—along with the urge to resist it—is this volume’s common theme, whether in relationships between parents and children, lovers, ex-lovers, friends, and even in-laws. . . . An astonishingly powerful collection worth multiple readings.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The 12 stories collected in Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum are skillfully crafted miniatures that feature unfailingly ordinary characters whose lives she uses to illuminate truths about love, longing and the elusive search for connection…The personal discoveries unearthed by characters like these may seem inconsequential, but they are anything but that. They're the stories of choices, turning points and epiphanies that are the stuff of life itself, and of indelible moments Elizabeth McCracken preserves in these unpretentious tales…In a dozen stories, Elizabeth McCracken excels at capturing the kinds of moments that often escape our notice.” — Shelf Awareness “There’s good reason a new Elizabeth McCracken book is cause for celebration: everything she writes—her short stories, her novels, and, hey, also a memoir—is consistently brilliant. Her work is the perfect amount of odd, witty, tender, and deceptively heart-splitting. I can’t wait.” — The Millions
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Man Who Lived Underground
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller • One of the Best Books of the Year: Time magazine, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Esquire • One of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the YearFrom the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was unable to publish during his lifetime—an explosive story of racism, injustice, brutality, and survival. Not just Wright''s masterwork, but also a milestone in African American literature . . . One of those indispensable works that reminds all its readers that, whether we are in the flow of life or somehow separated from it, above- or belowground, we are all human. (Gene Seymour, CNN.com)“The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.”—Kiese LaymonFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system.This is the devastating premise of Richard Wright''s scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement between the Library of America and the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Neil Gaiman Reader
Book SynopsisAn outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon JamesSpanning Gaiman’s career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved writers.A brilliant representation of Gaiman''s groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults —Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—and nearly fifty of his short stories. Impressive in its depth and range, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman’s oeuvre and a literary trove Ga
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Neil Gaiman Reader
Book SynopsisAn outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James. A brilliant representation of Gaiman’s groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes nearly fifty of his short stories and excerpts from each of his five novels for adults—Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Impressive in its depth and range, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman’s oeuvre and a literary trove to which Gaiman readers old and new will return many times over.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Other You
Book SynopsisA powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices.Trade Review"Trenchant and moody." — New York Times Book Review "...A series of well-written stories about the what-if wonders of a life that’s been, well, lived...Oates is a master of tension and form, her writing dashing across the page to an often devastating conclusion. Her singular style works well here, fueling the stories even as you oftentimes dread them." — USA Today "Oates delivers a dark, moody collection permeated by themes of obsession, remorse, and violence. . . . Oates's mastery of the form remains fierce and formidable in this unsettling collection of lamentations and missed opportunities." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Crackling with pent-up emotion and deadly devices, a suite of neatly intertwining stories by a masterful storyteller. . . . Few short story writers do as much in so few words as the economical, enigmatic Oates.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Reunion Beach
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Afterparties
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Afterparties
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Walk Between the Raindrops
Book SynopsisAn electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there and it came for him.”A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Walk Between the Raindrops
Book SynopsisAn electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there and it came for him.”A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary
Book SynopsisA funny, fresh, and brilliantly insightful collection of stories from a beloved writer, with a new introduction by Francine ProseJohanna Kaplan’s beautifully written stories first burst on the literary scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Today they have retained all of their depth, surprise, and humor—their simultaneously scathing, hilarious, and compassionate insight into character and behavior. From Miriam, home from school with the measles, to Louise, the daughter of a family that fled Vienna for the Dominican Republic, to Naomi, a young psychiatrist, her heroines are fierce, tender, funny, and cuttingly smart.At once specific to a particular period, place, and milieu—mainly, Jewish New York in the decades after World War II—Kaplan’s stories resonate with universal significance. In this new collection, which includes both early and later stories, unforgettably vivid characters are captured in all of their forceful
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fragile Things
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc SelfPortrait with Ghost
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The author excels in using simple but surprising scenarios to capture a range of emotions, especially anxiety, fear, ennui, malaise, disillusionment, and alienation. While the stories examine serious and often heartbreaking aspects of daily living, Omae injects them with just enough humor and tenderness to provoke thought and inspire curiosity rather than despair. ...[A] nuanced and moving explorations of the intricacies of interpersonal relationships.” — Kirkus Reviews "People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals are Nice is a captivating exploration of gender dynamics, set against a background of the trying and confusing time of adolescence, when identity is in flux and everything in life is unstable and magical. This book lets you see the world through Omae’s idiosyncratic and charming eyes." — Lydia Conklin, author of RAINBOW RAINBOW “This collection highlights the need for more stories written by young Japanese millennial and Generation Z writers. Omae’s characters should prove to be an important contribution to literature — and Japan’s evolving understanding of the complexity of sexuality and human relationships.” — The Japan Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Poorly Made and Other Things
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HarperCollins The Man in Black
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HarperCollins Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
Book Synopsis“Nothing short of a wonder-book.”—New York Times Book Review The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to poor, Black, and gay in the United States.A three-year-old boy begins to deliver messages from dead relatives. A zombie uprising is led by an evil preacher. A woman is haunted by a child her husband may have drowned. A pig talks. The stories in Let the Dead Bury Their Dead embody the type of fiction that defined Randall Kenan''s career: set in the thinly veiled fictional Carolina town of Tims Creek, they follow a diverse cast of Southern folkways, and stare into a long shadow of history. A stunning mix of magic, myth, and folktales, Kenan masterfully portrays a world of varied voices, and in wondrous prose, brings to life the ghosts of our past and present.
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HarperCollins Maktub Spanish Edition
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HarperCollins The Vanishing Point
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Octopussy and the Living Daylights
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HarperCollins Seven Dials Tv TieIn
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Penguin Publishing Group The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Book SynopsisThe terrifying and definitive collection of Vampire stories from the masters of literary horrorThey're lurking under the cover of darkness…and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful—they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.Trade Review"The count himself would be well pleased." —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsVampire StoriesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Alan RyanFragment of a Novel (1816)George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Vampyre (1819)John PolidoriVarney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood (excerpt) (1845)James Malcolm RymerThe Mysterious Stranger (1860)AnonymousCarmilla (1872)J. Sheridan Le FanuGood Lady Ducayne (1896)Mary Elizabeth BraddonDracula's Guest (1897)Bram StokerLuella Miller (1903)Mary E. Wilkins-FreemanFor the Blood Is the Life (1911)F. Marion CrawfordThe Transfer (1912)Algernon BlackwoodThe Room in the Tower (1912)E. F. BensonAn Episode of Cathedral History (1919)M. R. JamesA Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931)Clark Ashton SmithShambleau (1933)C. L. MooreRevelations in Black (1933)Carl JacobiSchool for the Unspeakable (1937)Manly Wade WellmanThe Drifting Snow (1939)August DerlethOver the River (1941)P. Schuyler MillerThe Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949)Fritz LeiberThe Mindworm (1950)C. M. KornbluthDrink My Blood (1951)Richard MathesonPlace of Meeting (1953)Charles BeaumontThe Living Dead (1967)Robert BlochPages from a Young Girl's Journal (1975)Robert AickmanThe Werewolf and the Vampire (1975)R. Chetwynd-HayesLove-Starved (1979)Charles L. GrantCabin 33 (1980)Chelsea Quinn YarbroUnicorn Tapestry (1980)Suzy McKee CharnasFollowing the Way (1982)Alan RyanThe Sunshine Club (1983)Ramsey CampbellThe Men & Women of Rivendale (1984)Steve Rasnic TemBite-Me-Not or, Fleur De Feu (1984)Tanith LeeAppendix I: Vampire NovelsAppendix II: Vampire Movies
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Penguin Books Ltd Lewis David L. Ed Portable Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisGathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement''s most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis'' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.
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Penguin Publishing Group El Laberinto de la Soledad Y Otras Obras
Book SynopsisOctavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, The Labyrinth of Solitude, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Art of the Story
Book SynopsisAn anthology featuring contemporary masters of the short story around the globe, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis, and moreFollowing the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers—those born after 1937—to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.Trade Review"A grand convocation of writers from across the globe - middle-aged and young, famous and obscure."-Newsweek "One of the best primers to appear in years . . . Running the gamut from high farce to domestic realism, these tales celebrate the artistic liveliness of short fiction today." -Boston PhoenixTable of ContentsThe Art of the StoryPreface Ama Ata Aidoo, GhanaA Gift from SomewhereHanan Al-Shaykh, LebanonThe Keeper of the VirginsJulia Alvarez, United StatesAmor DivinoMartin Amis, EnglandThe ImmortalsReinaldo Arenas, CubaThe Glass TowerMargaret Atwood, CanadaWilderness TipsToni Cade Bambara, United StatesGorilla, My LoveRussell Banks, United StatesMy Mother's Memoirs, My Father's Lie, and Other True StoriesNicola Barker, EnglandG-StringJulian Barnes, EnglandEvermoreRichard Bausch, United StatesAren't You Happy for Me?Ann Beattie, United StatesIn AmalfiT. Coraghessan Boyle, United StatesRara AvisRobert Olen Butler, United StatesMr. GreenPeter Carey, AustraliaThe Fat Man in HistoryAngela Carter, EnglandThe Courtship of Mr. LyonRaymond Carver, United StatesAre These Actual Miles?Patrick Chamoiseau, MartiniqueThe Old Man Slave and the MastiffVikram Chandra, IndiaDharmaSandra Cisneros, United StatesNever Marry a MexicanJim Crace, EnglandThe Prospect from the Silver HillsEdwidge Danticat, HaitiNight WomenLydia Davis, United StatesThe House BehindDaniele del Giudice, ItalyAll Because of the MistakeJunot Díaz, Dominican RepublicYsraelPatricia Duncker, EnglandBetrayalDuong Thu Huong, VietnamReflections of SpringDeborah Eisenberg, United StatesThe Girl Who Left Her Sock on the FloorNathan Englander, United StatesThe Twenty-seventh ManVictor Erofeyev, RussiaThe ParakeetPéter Esterházy, HungaryRoberto NarratesNuruddin Farah, SomaliaMy Father, The Englishman, and IRichard Ford, United StatesOptimistsEduardo Galeano, UruguayThe Story of the Lizard Who Had the Habit of Dining on His WivesHervé Guibert, FranceThe HammamAbdulrazak Gurnah, TanzaniaEscortBarry Hannah, United StatesMidnight and I'm Not Famous YetPeter Høeg, DenmarkPortrait of the Avant-GardePawel Huelle, PolandMoving HouseKazuo Ishiguro, EnglandA Family SupperRoy Jacobsen, NorwayEncounterEdward P. Jones, United StatesThe First DayJames Kelman, ScotlandRemember Young CecilHanif Kureishi, EnglandIntimacyTorgny Lindgren, SwedenThe Stump-GrubberBobbie Ann Mason, United StatesWishColum McCann, IrelandEverything in This Country MustIan McEwan, WalesPornographySteven Millhauser, United StatesBehind the Blue CurtainLorrie Moore, United StatesWillingMary Morris, United StatesThe LifeguardMohammed Mrabet, MoroccoThe CanebrakeBharati Mukherjee, IndiaThe Management of GriefMurathan Mungan, TurkeyMuradhan and Selvihan or The Tale of the Crystal KioskHaruki Murakami, JapanThe Elephant VanishesJoyce Carol Oates, United StatesMark of SatanBen Okri, NigeriaIn the Shadow of WarAmos Oz, IsraelWhere the Jackals HowlVictor Pelevin, RussiaThe Life and Adventures of Shed Number XIIFrancine Prose, United StatesTalking DogSalman Rushdie, EnglandThe Free RadioKen Saro-Wiwa, NigeriaAfrica Kills Her SunIngo Schulze, GermanyThe RingGraham Swift, EnglandLearning to SwimAntonio Tabucchi, ItalyA RiddleNgugi wa Thiong'o, KenyaMinutes of GloryTatyana Tolstaya, RussiaOn the Golden PorchRose Tremain, EnglandJohn-JinLuisa Valenzuela, ArgentinaWho, Me a Bum?Edmund White, United StatesCinnamon SkinZoë Wicomb, South AfricaYou Can't Get Lost in Cape TownJohn Edgar Wideman, United StatesDoc's StoryJoy Williams, United StatesThe FarmJeanne Wilmot, United StatesDirt AngelJeanette Winterson, EnglandThe Green ManTobias Wolff, United StatesThe Night in QuestionCan Xue, ChinaThe Child Who Raised Poisonous SnakesBanana Yoshimoto, JapanHelixBiographical Notes
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Penguin Books Ltd The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThe masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fictionComposed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing, and stays with the herbalist Mrs. Almira Todd. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic fiction of community in which themes and form are exquisitely matched. To quote Willa Cather: The 'Pointed Fir' sketches are living things caught in the open, with light and freedom and air spaces about them. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all, but life itself.This edition, introduced by Alison Easton, also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories, among them The QueeTrade Review"Immense—it is the very life."—Rudyard Kipling
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