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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "La... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: 0679745130
- ASIN: 0679745130
- ISBN: 0679745130
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)
A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in thes... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: B00BBPWB78
- ASIN: B00BBPWB78
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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Honeymoon Cottage (A Pajaro Bay Mystery Book 1)
Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: B0190LLDKA
- ASIN: B0190LLDKA
- Manufacturer: Pajaro Bay Publishing
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Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present
In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuses on a particular subject - slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands o... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: 0316599239
- ASIN: 0316599239
- ISBN: 0316599239
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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The Overstory: A Novel
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- ASIN: B073VX7HT4
- ASIN: B073VX7HT4
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Big Little Lies
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that anothe... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: 0425274861
- ASIN: 0425274861
- ISBN: 0425274861
- Brand: Moriarty Liane
- Manufacturer: Berkley
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Surrender
5 Sizzling Authors . . . 5 Ways to Surrender.BOOK DESCRIPTIONS:TALL, DARK and CHARMING by Erika WildeAiden Stone loves life as a bachelor and has no intentions of settling down anytime soon. He has a great job and a career he enjoys, and women adore him . . . except for Daisy Parker, who doesn't seem fazed by his flirtatious attempts or the sexy smile that normally has panties dropping to the floor. She's a tougher nut to crack, but the fact that she seems immune to his charm only fascinates him more . . . until one hot unexpected encounter with her blows his mind and gives them both more than just a night of pleasure. Because Daisy is now his baby momma, and his life is about to change in ways he'd never anticipated.EASY LOVE by Kristen ProbyEli Boudreaux’s family has built ships and bo... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: B00GBHW9L4
- ASIN: B00GBHW9L4
- Manufacturer: 7th Press
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The Things They Carried
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywherefrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingit has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: 0618706410
- UPC: 046442706414
- ASIN: 0618706410
- ISBN: 0544309766
- Brand: Tim O Brien
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: B01N4VW75U
- ASIN: B01N4VW75U
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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The Kite Runner
The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. Since its publication in 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the care... [Read More] Best Contemporary Short Story Writers
- ASIN: 159463193X
- ASIN: 159463193X
- ISBN: 9781594631931
- Brand: Riverhead Books
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
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Children of the Night : The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present
In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, Best Contemporary Short Story Writers In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing,
- UPC: 53328607
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American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers
This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias Best Contemporary Short Story Writers This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that give
- UPC: 446464
- Rating: 5.0
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Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers - eBook
"First time I've read a collection from Native American Writers. Won't be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also conflicts between full-blood and half-blood. Very interesting and enlightening. Loved it!" — BookBunnyPRThis new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John Best Contemporary Short Story Writers Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers - eBook
- UPC: 716510274
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Best Short Stories from Great Writers - eBook
A collection of some of the best short stories from great writers ranging from Balzac, Chekov, Maupassant to Zola among many others. This special edition edited by Ozdemir brings some of the works of the iconic writers to modern Best Contemporary Short Story Writers Best Short Stories from Great Writers - eBook
- UPC: 441990407
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Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers
Stories by a wide range of modern authors includes Pauline Johnson, Zitkala-Sa, and John M. Oskison, as well as writers who came to prominence in the decades following World War Best Contemporary Short Story Writers "First time I've read a collection from Native American Writers. Won't be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also conflicts between full-blood and half-blood. Very interesting and enlightening. Loved it!" -- BookBunnyPRThis new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John
- UPC: 21756222
Reading Short Stories: Where To Start
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Top 10 Most Popular Modern Authors
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Writer George Saunders Reflects on Engineering Short Fiction
George Saunders, a former MacArthur Fellow, talks to Jeffrey Brown about his latest collection of stories, "Tenth of December," and his unique voice and approach to capturing contemporary American ... PBS NewsHour,George Saunders,macarthur fellow,stories,author,short stories,voice,writing,american...
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