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Hachette Books Fire and Forget
Book SynopsisA unique collection of hard-hitting and poignant short stories written by twelve veterans, and one military spouse, of America's recent wars in Iraq and AfghanistanTrade ReviewStreet Roots, 2/28/13 "Representing a new generation of veterans-turned-authors, the contributors in Fire and Forget have returned home, at least physically, and are now sharing their works and sculpting the public's perception of these wars and how they've impacted the warriors...Fire and Forget is an effective cultural text on multiple levels. Not only does it serve as a historical milepost, reminding us that we are waging the longest war in ou Tottenville Review, 5/22/13 "Every one of the voices in Fire and Forget rises to the challenge, and, as each gains in force and measure, the fog of war may clear." The Millions, 6/4/13 "The best fictional account of the wars of the last decade and the contemporary military experience...Fresh, raw, and vital. It is a rare thing for a book to live up to its blurb, but E.L. Doctorow got it right when he called this a 'necessary' collection." "A visceral, all-too-real collection of short stories by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...This is fiction as good as any you'll read anywhere...These pages contain a record of the cost of our excursions abroad that is as illustrative as any culture can produce." Barnes and Noble Review, 2/15/13 "These rousing 'Short Stories of the Long War' are uniquely resonant." War on Terror News, 2/13/13 "Probably the best single representation of Iraq and Afghanistan-fiction that's currently available. Novels like Fobbit and The Yellow Birds have done their part well--but one author's voice can only go so far." Military Times, 1/6/2014 "You are unlikely to forget this fine fiction by 14 veterans and a veteran's spouse. Known writers...contribute three of the 15 stories in this collection. Their work is solid but Fire also succeeds because of names the book introduces." Penthouse, February 2014 "The 15 works of fiction in this collection are powerful, poignant, and at times painful tales of the truths of war, written by men and women who were there--and one wife who was left behind." The Massachusetts Review website, January 2014 "Fire and Forget has lessons we civilians have yet to learn." Word & Film, 2/5/15 "Offer[s] diverse experiences of those affected by--and fighting--the Global War on Terror." The Rumpus, 9/26/16 "One of the first short story collections of fiction derived from the recent wars." Military Success Network, 2/12/13 "Its pages feature unique but iconic stories of war, homecoming, and the struggle for meaning in both...This collection paints a startling and bleak picture of Long War veterans and their lives during and after combat...That said, the voices of Fire and Forget ring true in their cynicism, pain, and humor. This is an important collection of fiction, not only because of its current-day relevancy, but also because of the strength of its diverse voices, all engaged in a search for truth among the desert sands of fiction and memory. It should not be missed by anyone with an interest in modern war or the veteran experience." Acolytes of War, 1/21/13 "Whether portraying the fantastical or the banal, the in-theater tales feature grunts' eye perspectives on deployment, far from the sterile perspectives recounted in more official histories, memoirs, journalism, and government pronouncements...Hat's off to all the Fire and Forget authors and editors." ForeWord, Spring 2013 "Deeply insightful...The writing is vivid and compelling, artfully selected by the editors...An important book...This collection deserves to be read." Internet Review of Books, 1/25/13 "As might be expected, these stories are intense; it's hard to read many of them in a single session. Yet contrary to expectations there's not much sameness in the telling. Each man or woman has his/her own story, each one unique. These are voices we all need to hear." East Bay Express, 2/5/13 "[A] remarkable collection...Not for the faint of heart, they are realistic, haunting, shocking, and unforgettable...This collection offers voices--powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer." Joyce Carol Oates, Twitter.com, 2/9/13 "Brilliant intro by Colum McCann. Devastating stories." Daily Beast, 2/11/13 Michigan War Studies Review, 5/30/13 "Covers an array of subjects, from the intensity of combat to the difficulties of reintegration back home...Fire and Forget will give readers a better understanding of America's twenty-first-century wars and their aftermath...For teachers, Fire and Forget will be an invaluable supplement to the more conventional historical narratives, journal articles, and documentaries on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by vividly personalizing the war in a way that nonfiction cannot." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/9/13 "These 15 tales convey a truth that very few of us can even imagine." John Shelton Ivany Top 21 "These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable...What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home." Columbia Journalism Review (website), 6/25/13 "There are moments of truth in these stories." Philadelphia Tribune, 6/16/13 "Provides a new perspective...Remarkable." BiteTheBook.com, 7/1/13 "[A] powerful collection of short fiction." New York Daily News, 3/5/13 "Some of America's greatest works of literature have come from its wars. Be it Stephen Crane, E.L. Doctorow, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, James Jones or Tim O'Brien, war has been memorialized, glorified, satirized and revealed in all its valor and depredation...Now, as another war comes to a close, a new generation of authors will come forward to define themselves through their own fictional narratives. Among the finest have been enlisted in Fire and Forget...Fire and Forget will not soon be forgotten." Street Roots, 2/28/13 "Representing a new generation of veterans-turned-authors, the contributors in Fire and Forget have returned home, at least physically, and are now sharing their works and sculpting the public's perception of these wars and how they've impacted the warriors...Fire and Forget is an effective cultural text on multiple levels. Not only does it serve as a historical milepost, reminding us that we are waging the longest war in ou Roanoke Times, 3/1 "Gritty with realism...The tales are exceedingly well told. Fiction it may be, but none can deny the ring of truth." Bookviews, 2/22 "Anyone who served and anyone who wants to know what it was to serve will value this book." Library Journal, 3/15/13 "With wars come war stories and from those stories evolves literature. Leading this generation of war literature is this collection of short stories written by soldiers and a military spouse whose lives were directly affected by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan...The encompassing and humanistic tone is the heart of this work...The honesty and authenticity of the stories are universal...Like Walter Dean Myers's Sunrise Over Fallujah, these tales will appeal to readers of war and historical fiction." Literary Aficionado, 2/22/13 "Penetrating stories from the hands of the damaged who have scribed the tensions, and anguish, the scars, the decimation of personal lives of those who returned home either physically maimed or mentally brutalized or both...These stories are so well edited that there is a variety of types of tales--some humorous, some that show that intense camaraderie that often peaks in a war zone, some about those left behind when the soldiers were fragged to distant lands...Some tattoo on the mind." New City, 2/26 "Nothing brings the reality of war home like hearing it from the hearts and minds of those who experienced it...Fire and Forget arrives at just the right time, when the last vestiges of conflict fall away...Roy Scranton and Matt Gallagher have not only compiled an excellent diversity of experiences and vantage points into the war, but also a list of accomplished and gifted writers...The stories are by turns gritty and hilarious, poignant and rhapsodic, but there's one thing they all share: they are all imbued with the deep love of their authors. Faced with something as unspeakably harrowing as war, the voices here have salvaged what small beauty they could from the turmoil...At no point is this an easy collection, but it is a necessary one." Booklist, 1/1/13 "Captures the messiness of soldiering when the mission and endgame are unclear. Though fiction, each work reads true, filled with tension, fear, and anger. Readers are transported to desert checkpoints, ride along with vehicle convoys, and return home from combat to face an uncertain future." The Guardian (UK), 1/3/13 "The range of stories in Fire and Forget displays a remarkable depth and breadth of the experience of the Iraq war." WarOnTerrorNews, 1/3/13 "Like Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, most of these 15 stories are so deceptively crafted that the impact sneaks up on the reader in an unexpected way...It seems like we're preconditioned to expect 700-page epic novels, but a 10-page short story can condense all the emotion down to its core essence. The editors have done a remarkable job at maintaining that discipline...It's a powerful collection; for now, probably the best, most comprehensive--fictional--look at the wars that has been written." The Fighting Leprechaun, 1/10/13 "Powerful... These short stories manage to capture the essence of what service members have experienced... There are a lot of essential truths packed into Fire and Forget. For those of us that have been there, or know people who served in these wars, it is important reading."
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Penguin Random House LLC The Empresss New Lingerie and Other Erotic Fairy Tales Bedtime Stories for GrownUps
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Random House USA Inc St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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Random House USA Inc SelfHelp
Book SynopsisFrom the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs—and a master of contemporary American fiction—comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories (The New York Times Book Review). In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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Random House USA Inc Something Is Out There
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Random House USA Inc O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group PENO. Henry Prize Stories 2009
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Random House USA Inc The Thing Around Your Neck
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Hawthornes Short Stories Vintage Classics
Book SynopsisTwenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as Young Goodman Brown, in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter, about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and The Birthmark, in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.
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Random House USA Inc Ficciones Fictions
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Vintage Espanol El Aleph The Aleph
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St. Martin's Press Werewolves in Their Youth
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St Martin's Press Almost No Memory
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St Martin's Press The Coast of Chicago
Book SynopsisThe stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek''s classic story collection. A child''s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder''s inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America''s most highly regarded writers.
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Picador USA Chemistry and Other Stories
Book SynopsisA collection of stories in which the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
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St Martin's Press Jesus Son
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St Martin's Press Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Book SynopsisThe Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg contains twenty-seven short stories by a contemporary master (New York Times).Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing exquisitely distilled stories which present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).One of America''s finest writers.San Francisco Chronicle Concentrated bursts of perfection.The Times (London)
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Picador The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Book Synopsis The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called an American virtuoso of the short story form (Salon) and one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis''s short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance.Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction. San Francisco Chronicle
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Griffin Publishing What Is This Thing Called Love
Book SynopsisCollects such stories as: "In Love for the First Time"; "About Being in Love"; and, "The Woman in the Red Hat".
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St Martin's Press Strange Travelers New Selected Stories
Book SynopsisGene Wolfe's collection "Strange Travellers" contains some award nominated stories, and some contraversial new stories.
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Back Bay Books Oblivion
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Little, Brown & Company Holidays on Ice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"He's the best there is." -- People "A joy to read...Sedaris is a connoisseur of human nature at its worst." -- Boston Globe "Sedaris is certainly worthy of hero worship...He is a master pathfinder." -- Charlotte Observer "A writer comparable to Mark Twain or James Thurber. You have to go back a ways to find someone to compare David Sedaris with; his talent is so huge it just doesn't come around that often." -- Raleigh News & Observer
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Little, Brown & Company This Is Not a Love Song
Book SynopsisThe debut story collection by a rising star who has been compared to Michael Chabon, E. L. Doctorow, and Dennis Lehane, and whose novel The World of Tomorrow, 'a big, expressive debut' (Wall Street Journal), was named one of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Must-Read Books of the Fall.
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Back Bay Books Franny and Zooey
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Back Bay Books Nine Stories
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Back Bay Books Nine Stories
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Little Brown and Company Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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Pan Macmillan Scission
Book SynopsisTim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.Trade ReviewTim Winton is the real thing: a writer who can photograph a thought and pluck out the beat of a soul on a washing line. * Scotland on Sunday *Winton is boisterous and lyrical by turns; his sense of sentiment is unerringly accurate, his characters unforgettable. The emotional control exercised over his anarchic world puts Winton in the top drawer of Australian fiction. * Daily Telegraph *Winton’s compassionate and humorous writing is nothing short of magnificent. If you can imagine Neighbours taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel García Márquez, you’re close. * Time Out *
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Random House Publishing Group Among the Missing Ballantine Readers Circle Stories
Book SynopsisIn this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Pangs Of Love
Book SynopsisWith her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories.Paraded here are ladies with a ''thing'' about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate upstairs ones), and the English abroad, desperate and dotty. The glum and impossible Edna haunts the supermarket- and dispenses an unlikely kiss of life. The younger sister of Hans Christian Andersen''s Little Mermaid declares her sibling ''very silly'' and turns her story on its tail, an old maid forms a curious liason with a tramp, and small moments of temptation fill hotel rooms as histories glance briefly off each other.Trade ReviewThere is, in Jane Gardam's writing, the air of a magician. Each story unfolds with precision, art concealing art, and with a marvellously satisfying punch line * DAILY TELEGRAPH *A spare and elegant master of her art * THE TIMES *Exuberant narration and stylish dialogue; I read it with relish... powerful and haunting. * Penelope Lively, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Marvellously precise sleight-of-hand short stories. * DAILY MAIL *All the stories possess a delicacy and economy which leaves one, having read them, with just the right measure of pleasurable incompleteness * FINANCIAL TIMES *Assured and enjoyable * STANDARD *She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
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Little, Brown Book Group Showing The Flag
Book SynopsisThe flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam''s stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.
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Mariner Books Classics Interpreter of Maladies
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Harper Perennial Changing Planes
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable BookA fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver''s Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist. —USA TodayIn these “vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches” (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver’s Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning—and mystery—of being human.Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she’s fo
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Lulu Press A Magnet to a Flame
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Stream System
Book SynopsisStories from a mind-bending Australian master, a genius on the level of Beckett (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these storiesoriginally published from 1985 to 2012offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting Land Deal, which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to Finger Web, which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to The Interior of Gaaldine, which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. No one e
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Fsg Originals The Dark Dark
Book SynopsisA Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, KirkusWields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky. Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerA feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this year. Daniel Johnson, The Paris ReviewFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt''s first collection of stories, The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the vergegirls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and moreStep into The Dark Dark, where an award-winning, acclaimed novelist debuts her first collection of short stories and conjures entire universes in just a few pagesconjures, splits in half, mines for hu
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Heartbreaker
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Random House USA Inc The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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Random House USA Inc London Stories
Book SynopsisLondon has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place. Acclaimed historian Jerry White has collected some twenty-six stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and writing over the past four centuries, from Shakespeare’s day to the present. These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. Here are dramatic views of such iconic events as the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz, but also William Thackeray’s account of going to see a man hanged, Thomas De Quincey’s friendship with a teenaged prostitute, and Doris Lessing’s defense of the Underground. This literary London encompasses the famous Baker Street residence of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the bombed-out moonscape of Elizabeth Bowen’s wartime streets, Charles Dicken’s treacherous River Thames and Frederick Treves’s tragic Elephant Man. Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and Hanif Kureishi are among the many great writers who give us their varied Londons here, revealing a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group More Stories We Tell
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Random House USA Inc Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with “the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life” (The New York Times) “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us, again and again.”—Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged
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Random House Publishing Group Voodoo Heart Stories
Book SynopsisScott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder’s wondrous imagination there’s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress—in hiding after surgery—and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple’s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women’s prison next door. Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Look at the Birdie
Book Synopsis“Relentlessly fun to read.”—Dave Eggers • A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fictionIn this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut’s trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack ps
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Penguin Putnam Inc While Mortals Sleep
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