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Broadview Press Ltd Wuthering Heights
Book SynopsisCritics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire’s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel’s historical background.Trade ReviewChristopher Heywood invites us to take a fresh look at this oft-interpreted novel, throwing new light on its literary ancestry, and providing a wealth of material about the 'plantation economy' of northern England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His introduction situates the work firmly in its place and time, putting particular emphasis on the complex of family and social histories out of which Bronte wove her story. In Heywood's provocative reading, Heathcliff sheds the demonic aura with which he is invested by other critics, and takes on tragic dimensions, becoming 'a martyr and hero of social change.' This Broadview edition of Wuthering Heights makes a valuable contribution to the continuing debate about the origins, structure, and meaning of one of the greatest—and most enigmatic—novels in English." - Herbert Rosengarten, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsEmily Brontë: A Brief ChronologyIntroduction The Wuthering Heights landscape The story: symmetry The marriage prohibition Lockwood’s Wilberforcean dreams Africa and Yorkshire unchained Signs of fertility Note on the text Wuthering HeightsAppendix A: The Chronology of Wuthering HeightsAppendix B: Literary TraditionAppendix C: Family HistoriesAppendix D: Documents Landscape John Hutton, Tour to the Caves (1781) Emancipation John Woolman, Journal (1776) John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754) Slavery ‘The Sorrows of Yamba’ Robert Brougham (1778-1868),‘On the Immediate Emancipation of Negro Apprentices’ Blacks in England ‘Samboo’s Tomb’ (1822) Slavery in Yorkshire The Leeds Mercury, 1831 Image of the Rocks Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) The Brontës in Ireland Alice Brontës Interview Select Bibliography
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
Book Synopsis"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with four new pieces, they are now published in a one-volume paperback collection of Bunin's greatest writings. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.Trade ReviewIvan Bunin...is one of the finest story writers of the twentieth century, a master of tone and experiment. -- Gary Saul Morson[Bunin is] one of the great literary masters of the twentieth century...[his is a] powerful and pellucid art. -- Cynthia Ozick, author of The Pagan Rabbi and Other StoriesRussian exile Bunin (1870-1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933, becomes stunningly accessible in this beautiful new translation. * Publishers Weekly *"The translation is graceful and essentially accurate." -- Richard Lourie * The Wall Street Journal *Emotional intensity in remembrance that recalls Proust....Stunningly accessible...beautiful new translation. * Publishers Weekly *Fluid new translations...this piercingly lyrical collection renders fully the passion of the human heart and the power of memories. -- LELIA RUCKENSTEIN * The Review of Higher Education *Now we have a new and comprehensive volume of [Bunin's] fiction, Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin, beautifully translated by Graham Hettlinger. * New York Sun *[Hettlinger's translations] are a joy to read. * Slavic and East European Journal *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Highway Kind Tales of Fast Cars Desperate
Book SynopsisLike fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together. Including entirely new stories from Michael Connelly, C.J. Box, George Pelecanos, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, Ace Atkins, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sara Gran, Ben H. Winters, and Joe Lansdale, THE HIGHWAY KIND is a street-level look at modern America, as seen through one of its national obsessions.
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Little, Brown Book Group Sherlock Holmess School for Detection
Book SynopsisIt''s 1890. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson return to Baker Street after a night pursuing a vicious criminal. Inspector Lestrade is waiting for Holmes with a proposition of national importance. Lestrade tells Holmes that a school of detection has been formed to train a new breed of modern investigators that will serve in Great Britain and the Empire. Most students will become police officers. Some, however, will become bodyguards and spies. Holmes begins instructing his decidedly curious assortment of students from home and abroad. He does so with his customary gusto and inventiveness.Scotland Yard, in the main, allocates crimes to solve and Holmes mentors his students. Occasionally, he shadows them in disguise in order to assess or even directly test their abilities with creative scenarios he devises. Certain crimes investigated by the students might appear trivial, such as the re-positioning of an ornament atop a garden wall, yet it will transpire an assassin has
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HarperCollins Publishers Reave the Just and Other Tales
Book SynopsisA wondeful collection of fantasy short stories from the renowned author of the Thomas Covenant series.Trade Review‘If there is any justice in the literary world, Donaldson will earn the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with Tolkien.’Time Out ‘A writer of central significance as an author of demanding and exploratory fantasy.’JOHN CLUTE ‘The most individual of the Tolkien successors.’Guardian
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Alma Books Ltd The Suitcase
Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
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Bedford Square Publishers Severance / Intercourse
Book SynopsisThe human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this, Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. Here are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures - Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner. Following on from this, Butler addressed the question of: what goes through the mind of a person while having sex? Turning his daring imagination to the intimate, Butler lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings of fifty, often surprising, couples in Intercourse.Trade ReviewExperimental writing in its purest form... This is a beautifully designed, reversible double offering; a curio in form as well as content. A must for fans of sex and death -- Alan Bett * The Skinny *light-flashing-before-the-eye distillations of life [...] sweet, but disturbing * Shortlist *
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Canongate Books Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
Book SynopsisRevenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short 'The Scarlatti Tilt' to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of 'An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film', Brautigan's stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories and characters resonating in our heads long after they're gone.Trade ReviewHe was an absolute original who found cause for celebration in the most unlikely places. * * Guardian * *His writing manages to conjure up a feeling of relaxation and well-being, somehow existing in our reality without being touched by it - easy to fall into and over far too soon. After reading this you'll feel like you've been on holiday with a friend * * Time Out * *The verbal humour and zany charm of the book remain quite irresistible. * * Daily Telegraph * *Charming . . . the stories have memorable or beautifully handled moments of observation * * London Review of Books * *
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Everyman Roald Dahl Collected Stories
Book SynopsisMany of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began his literary career by writing about his own experiences in the RAF during World War II but soon developed this talent in a series of short-story collections. He is perhaps even more celebrated as an author of children's books, but the best of his short stories represent a claim for him to be numbered among the most remarkable story writers of the 20th century.The present volume includes for the first time all the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Death Factory
Book SynopsisDon’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy—Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—comes this e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from Natchez Burning.Death is the end, and if a man doesn''t speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him.When a heart attack sends Penn''s father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day.The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA''s office known as the death factory, which sent more killers to death row than any other in
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Persephone Books Ltd Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of
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Dedalus Ltd The Mandarin and Other Stories
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Rimal Publications,Cyprus Stolen Shirt, The
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Blacksmith Books South China Morning Blues
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Random House USA Inc Favorite Folktales from Around the World
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Comma Press You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts
M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres - horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing - just as his characters occupy the no man's land between the spatial and the spiritual. Here, in his first collection of short fiction for over 15 years, we see the master of the New Wave present unsettling visions of contemporary urban Britain, as well as supernatural parodies of the wider, political landscape. From gelatinous aliens taking over the world's financial capitals, to the middle-aged man escaping the pressures of fatherhood by going missing in his own house... these are weird stories for weird times.
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Random House USA Inc Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Modern
Book SynopsisWhen this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ('The Black Cat'), Wilkie Collins ('A Terribly Strange Bed'), Henry James ('Sir Edmund Orme'), Guy de Maupassant ('Was It a Dream?'), O. Henry ('The Furnished Room'), Rudyard Kipling ('They'), and H.G. Wells ('Pollock and the Porroh Man'). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ('Ancient Sorceries'), Walter de la Mare ('Out of the Deep'), E.M. Forster ('The Celestial Omnibus'), Isak Dinesen ('The Sailor-Boys Tale'), H.P. Lovecraft ('The Dunwich Horror'), Dorothy L. Sayers ('Suspicion'), and Ernest Hemingway ('The Killers'). 'There is not a story in this collection that does not have the
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Darf Publishers Ltd The Clash of Images
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Final del juego / End of the Game
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Istros Books Exile
Book SynopsisExile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over-riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society. By offering the reader short, vivid glimpses into other worlds; be they of real or fictional characters, Ilhan builds a patchwork of stories which highlight the lives of the dispossessed. As a woman writing in modern day Turkey, she is not afraid to take on the themes of honour killings or the American occupation of Iraq. All stories are open to her empathy and understanding.Born in 1972, Çiler İlhan worked as a hotelier, a freelance writer (Boğaziçi, Time Out İstanbul, etc.) and an editor (Chat, Travel+Leisure) at different periods of her life. İlhan, based in İstanbul, now works as the public relations manager of the Çırağan Palace Kempinski hotel. In 1993, she received a prestigious youth award for a short story. The award was a tribute to the memory of Yaşar Nabi, a leading publisher and writer. Ilhan's stories, essays, book reviews, travel articles and translations into Turkish have been published in a variety of journals and newspaper supplements.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Dear Illusion: Collected Stories
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Galaxy Press Hurricane
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Random House USA Inc Olive Kitteridge
Book SynopsisThe larger-than-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son. Reprint.
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Little, Brown Book Group Back Talk
Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurfaceTrade ReviewDanielle Lazarin's Back Talk is deceptively quiet but packs a powerful punch-much like the girls and women in its pages. The stories in this collection batter at the boundaries of female desire-not just for sex, but for intimacy, for visibility, for agency. They talk back to the idea that stories about women are 'domestic,' burrowing deep to find wildness and a smoldering fury beneath. The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent -- Celeste NgLazarin's exceptional debut collection digs deep into the lives of women, telling complex stories of loss, hope, and joy. . . . [Back Talk] is confident and exhilarating; this auspicious collection is uniformly excellent * Publishers Weekly *Beautifully crafted . . . These stories hand their warnings to us: Don't be pleasant or easy to touch. Look mean for the camera. Just get up and go * New York Times *
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Random House USA Inc Men Without Women
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER ? Including the story Drive My Car??now an Academy Award?nominated film?this collection from the internationally acclaimed author examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it''ll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers (Barack Obama).Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka?s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
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Goose Lane Editions The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X
Book SynopsisA calculus formula, a calculating boy, a young woman who is intelligent but unwise the ingredients for a gripping story and the thematic fulcrum for The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X, a rivetting new collection of stories by Halifax writer Richard Cumyn. In this idiosyncratic collection of stories, Cumyn explores the surface tension between men and women and those rare moments of insight that often accompany loss. Casting his imagination over the territory extending from adolescence to middle-age, Cumyn finds plenty to contemplate and lots to laugh about as the men and women of his stories brushup against each other, sometimes violently, and often humorously.
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Faber & Faber Night Train
Book Synopsis''Jones was a master of the short story [and] Night Train will be an amazing discovery for anyone who cares about literature.'' Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The SonA posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by short-fiction icon and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones, with a stunning introduction by Amy BloomThom Jones's stories are high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells some lovable, some not but each with a voice that never fails to grab you by the collar. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, psych ward veterans and an unforgettable adolescent DJ radio host, among others.Perfectly capturing the essence of this icon of the American short story, Night Train showcases the sheer breadth and power of his inimitable stories.Bleakly and outrageously comic . . . Reading Thom Jones''s fiction
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Parallax Press The Stone Boy and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn The Stone Boy and Other Stories, Thich Nhat Hanh''s collection of short fiction, the well known Zen monk and peace activist expolres Buddhist themes of love and compassion while introducing the reader to the treasures of Vietnamese culture.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Perfect Crime
Book SynopsisAround the world in 22 murders…Trade Review‘A truly fabulous and satisfying read’ Lovereading ‘[A] collection of cunning, suspenseful and dark crime stories.’ CBC Radio ‘An absolute delight! The Perfect Crime is the most original, and captivating, short fiction anthology to come along in ages. The diversity of voice, of setting, of sensibility, of approach to storytelling is wondrous! I don't usually say this about compilations, but this book is a one-sitting read.’JEFFERY DEAVER, bestseller author of The Midnight Lock ‘Huge talent, wide horizons, endless fascination – this is the best collection I have seen for ages … maybe ever’LEE CHILD, bestselling author of Better off Dead 'A positive cornucopia of criminal delights'Mike Ripley, ShotsMag ‘This is a wonderful collection of short stories from some of the best crime writers working today.’ STEVE CAVANAGH, no. 1 bestselling author of Thirteen 'A stunning collection of highly original short stories.' M.W. CRAVEN, bestselling author of Dead Ground ‘The Perfect Crime is a nicely curated and wide-ranging collection which brings together a perfect blend of established stars such as Walter Mosley and Mike Phillips and exciting new voices’MARTIN EDWARDS ‘A collection of crime writers from diverse cultural backgrounds, united by the quality of their compelling stories. A hugely welcome and long-overdue anthology.’MARK BILLINGHAM, no. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller ‘The fact that The Perfect Crime is edited by two luminaries of the crime scene (one a newish star and one a respected veteran) has made for an irresistible collection of short fiction. Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski have assembled 22 bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures around the world, taking readers to every point of the compass in exploring the criminous side of human nature. Sheer pleasure.’ Financial Times
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Workman Publishing Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
Book SynopsisAn exquisite collection of haunting, magical stories from Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and unknown—of the imagination. In “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake,” a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. “The Insect and the Astronomer” upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella “The Unlicensed Magician” introduces the secret magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead—with thematic echoes of Barnhill’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. With bold, reality-bending invention underscored by richly illuminated universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope, the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies show why its author has been hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). This collection cements Barnhill’s place as one of the wittiest, most vital and compelling voices in contemporary literature.
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Random House USA Inc The Island Dwellers
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Counterpoint Black Swans: Stories
Book SynopsisBabitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures. —The New York Times Book ReviewA new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s—decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter.On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure—a perpetual–motion machine of no–stakes elation and champagne fizz. —The New Yorker
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Oneworld Publications Bogotá 39: New Voices from Latin America
Book Synopsis ‘This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.’ El País Ten years on from the first Bogotá 39 selection, which brought writers such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra and Junot Díaz to fame, comes this story collection showcasing thirty-nine exceptional new talents. Chosen by some of the biggest names in Latin American literature, together with publishers, writers and literary critics and a panel of expert judges, this exciting anthology paves the way for a new generation of household names. These stories have been brought into English by some of the finest translators around, including familiar names such as Daniel Hahn, Christina MacSweeney and Megan McDowell, as well as many new and exciting translators who are just launching their careers. With authors from fifteen different countries, this diverse collection of stories transports readers to a host of new worlds, and represents the very best writing coming out of Latin America today.Trade Review‘A stunning and timely collection of short stories, worth reading for the sheer variety of voices as much as for its scope and literary quality.’ * Morning Star *‘This anthology allows us all to see before us a bright future for literature in Spanish.’ * New York Times (Spain) *‘A swirling celebration of breakthrough names who are producing diverse and intriguing stories.’ * Emerald Street *‘This short story anthology collects some of the best fiction by Latin American authors under 40, ensuring you’ll find new voices to love.’ * Paste Magazine *‘This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.’ * El País *‘A diverse and thought-provoking group of writers.’ * El Mercurio (Chile) *‘Readers can delve deep into the pages of this book just like someone getting lost in a forest: with a feeling of both wonder and surprise.’ * El Comercio (Peru) *
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Scribner Book Company Full Dark No Stars
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Scribner Book Company The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why Visit America
Book SynopsisWelcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn’t land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment. Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in.Trade ReviewA little revelation . . . The fantastical tales in this delightful book poke, with gleeful audacity, at the edges of contemporary America and late capitalism . . . Transitions of sex, gender, family, geographical borders, digital communication, language and even neurological states are examined in thrillingly imaginative stories . . . A witty, exuberant collection which variously reminded me of The Paper Menagerie, Friday Black, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Years and Years. Mind-bending, like all the best drugs * Big Issue *There’s a skew-whiff wonderfulness to the thirteen tales in this off-kilter look at contemporary America and all its contradictions . . . Tackling hot-button topics, Baker tip-tilts the perspective, offering something at once strange yet instantly familiar . . . It’s all masterfully done, and Baker’s prose is engagingly easeful, yet hypnotically elegant * Daily Mail *Conspicuously talented . . . Baker never takes the easy way out. He doesn’t brandish sharp swords at American capitalism or consumer excess or fears that masquerade as politics. Neither does he construct straw men, then ask the reader to applaud when he lights them on fire. Instead, he demonstrates charity toward his characters, who as Americans stand in for the prismatic nature of the country itself * Washington Post *Satirical and deeply humane, these poignant stories expose the moral bankruptcy at the rotten core of the American social contract * Esquire *Matthew Baker is the rarest of writers, one who can turn complex, high-concept stories into sublime character-driven psalms. His work is both highly original and refreshingly human -- Noah Hawley, creator of 'Fargo'Baker’s writing is taut yet lyrical, and brims with sensitivity towards the pitfalls of human experience * The Rumpus *How does he do it? Matthew Baker’s mind is an oyster producing pearl after pearl. Each story in Why Visit America offers an eerie and unsettling vision of our possible future while remaining emotionally truthful, and, as always, incredibly damn fun -- Kelly Luce, author of 'Pull Me Under'Matthew Baker's Why Visit America is at once deeply heartbroken by the state of our country and world, and also deeply hopeful about what both could be. These stories critically examine the harms wrought by American xenophobia, misogyny, transphobia and capitalism while also bearing an abiding, profound love for this planet and for its people. This is a brilliant collection that shines with imagination, and with empathy -- Anna Valente, author of 'The Desert Sky Before Us'With his unique brand of quirky, sardonic compassion, Matthew Baker offers us a book that’s like a cross-country road trip as seen through a funhouse mirror. At once trenchant and deeply tender, the stories in Why Visit America thrum with all that is exasperating, absurd, tragic, and still so compelling about life in these United States -- Naomi J. Williams, author of 'Landfalls'Matthew Baker's stories are wild in all the best ways but Why Visit America isn't just a triumph of weirdness - these stories use a variety of skewed lenses to offer smart critiques of the systems and beliefs humming through so much of American life. They also somehow manage to be, always, a ton of fun to read -- Lee Connell, author of 'Subcortical'This is the first of its kind, a work born of a deep understanding and a philosophical awareness of how things are. Over a century ago James Joyce aimed to write a moral history of his country: Matthew Baker has achieved that for his own. At the end of this acclaimed and untouchable collection there has been horror, but what remains is love * Lunate *Baker has a knack for this: for placing us in situations that are as foreseeable as they are creative; his musical, visual storytelling swaying us on-side, eliciting, ‘ahs’ and ‘ohs’, while we devour his original ideas about modern society. Within each parable, a sense of hope … It is this that makes his work most memorable (and with our current situation, relevant) long after reading * Port *Baker’s prose is astonishingly crisp, whilst his imagination and storytelling prowess are masterfully original and deeply touching, causing the reader to lose themselves in this most beguiling and transforming collection – once you’ve read Why Visit America, you’ll feel changed, you’ll feel enlightened and most of all you’ll be witnessing greatness * Storgy Magazine *
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Twisted Spoon Press Waiting for the Dog to Sleep
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Ediciones Obelisco S.L. Las mil y una noches
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Acantilado 24 horas en la vida de una mujer TwentyFour
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Prakash Books Lost Libido and Other Gulp Fiction
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MCD X Fsg Originals 100 Boyfriends
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed''s Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC''s 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News'' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense. Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesI loved this bookraunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way. Roxane GayAn irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult heroTransgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urg
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Nimbus Publishing (CN) After Many Years: Twenty-One Long-Lost Stories by L. M. Montgomery
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Tor Books Arcanum Unbounded The Cosmere Collection
Book SynopsisFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson?creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy?this iconic short fiction collection features stories set across the Cosmere universe.The Stormlight Archive novella Edgedancer is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, which includes novellas and short stories from the worlds of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, Elantris, and more.This collection includes:The Hope of Elantris (Elantris)The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn)The Emperor''s Soul (Elantris)Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30 (Mistborn)White Sand (excerpt; Taldain)Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (Threnody)Sixth of Dusk (First of the Sun)Mistborn: Secret History (Mistborn)Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive)These nine wonderful works, published elsewhere individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella The Emperor''s Soul and an excerpt from the graphic novel White Sand.Finally, this collection includes essays and illustrations for the various planetary systems in which the stories are set.Other Tor books by Brandon SandersonThe CosmereThe Stormlight Archive? The Way of Kings? Words of Radiance? Edgedancer (novella)? Oathbringer? Dawnshard (novella)? Rhythm of War? Wind and TruthThe Mistborn SagaThe Original Trilogy? Mistborn? The Well of Ascension? The Hero of AgesWax and Wayne? The Alloy of Law? Shadows of Self? The Bands of Mourning? The Lost MetalOther Cosmere novels? Elantris? Warbreaker? Tress of the Emerald Sea? Yumi and the Nightmare Painter? The Sunlit ManThe Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series? Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians? The Scrivener''s Bones? The Knights of Crystallia? The Shattered Lens? The Dark Talent? Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson)Other novels? The Rithmatist? Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds? The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval EnglandOther books by Brandon SandersonThe Reckoners? Steelheart? Firefight? CalamitySkyward? Skyward? Starsight? Cytonic? Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson)? Defiant
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Momentum Books Independence Day & Other Stories Paper & nk
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Indonesia's greatest fiction writer." --NYT "Wise, touching tales" --The Guardian "[Toer is] so great that we instantly feel we've known him - and he us - all our lives." --USA Today
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Galaxy Press The Headhunters
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Headline Publishing Group How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it.And it was unquestionably his.***'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The Times
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