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2) Antarctica
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"Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English." In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. "Love in the Tall Grass" takes Cordelia down a coastal road on the last day of the...
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English
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“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
Winner of the National Book Award
Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing
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English
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A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town ... A young boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood ... A fateful encounter with his native land and former love ... These are parts of the world of Carson McCullers - a world of the lost, the injured, the eternal strangers at life's feast. Here from one of America's superlative writers are brilliant revelations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and occasional happiness - tales that...
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Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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English
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Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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"The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'. O'Connor published her first story, 'The Geranium, ' in 1946, while she was working on her master's...
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Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home,and The Lost Country and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time...
15) Treeborne
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change-and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won't withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Centrada en el ambiente de una pequeña ciudad sureña y en un grupo de personas que--en torno a la figura emblemática del sordomundo John Singer, el personaje más conseguido de esta genial autora--tienen en común la esencial soledad, su marginalidad y el rechazo de una sociedad que les ignora, El corazón es un cazador solitario es ya un clásico de la narrativa contemporánea.
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Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Loosely linked by characters and themes, The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs follows shysters and schemers, film buffs and future ornithologists, unlikely do-gooders, and the men who make up Veterans Against Guns in North America, all doing the best they can with what they possess in smarts and cunning. With Singleton's signature comic flair, these stories peer through the peepholes of small-town South Carolina into the lives of everyday martyrs-prodigal...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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Witty stories set in the South. The story, It's a Funeral! RSVP, is a kind of do-it-yourself funeral service for those about to die, while in Your Husband Is Cheating on Us, a mistress proposes joining forces with the wife against a second mistress. Another extraordinary collection of short stories by the author of "Carolina Moon" and "Crash Diet". "(McCorkle's) characters ... ring as true as lead crystal".--"The Commercial Appeal" (Memphis). Available....
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