Drue Heinz Literature Prize – serie
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Source of Life and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2012
461 kr
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Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her …
Now You Know It All
Inbunden, 2021
382 kr
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Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery—and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southerners venturing afar, these stories capture the crucial moment of irrevocable change. A young waitress …
Small in Real Life
Stories
Av Kelly Sather
Inbunden, 2023
402 kr
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Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State. Exiled to a Malibu rehab, an alcoholic paparazzo spies on his celebrity friend …
Those Who Vanish
Inbunden, 2026
338 kr
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To disappear meant to die. In those days, in that place, almost everyone knew. With sentences that cut clean to the bone and wrench the heart, Patricia Grace King invites us to comprehend the traumas of wartime and the legacies they create. As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of …
Departures
Häftad, 1996
389 kr
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The stories in this extraordinary collection are set in Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast, the center for more than thirty years of fighting between Roman Catholic nationalists and Protestants loyal to the British crown. Cornell is not preoccupied, however, with the details of the war. Her …
Truly Needy And Other Stories
Av Lucy Honig
Häftad, 2002
348 kr
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These nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic politicians, and \u0022quality-of-life\u0022 campaigns as they are prey to grinding poverty, dangerous …
In the Gathering Woods
Häftad, 2002
348 kr
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2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize WinnerSelected by Frank ConroyIn the Gathering Woods contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator\u2019s boyhood …
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Twenty Best Of Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Häftad, 2003
379 kr
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The Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the writing and reading of short fiction. Over the past twenty years judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have selected …
Physics of Imaginary Objects
Häftad, 2011
358 kr
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Winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeThe Physics of Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very different kind of short fiction, blending story with verse to evoke fantasy, allegory, metaphor, love, body, mind, and nearly every sensory perception. Weaving in and out …
Vaquita and Other Stories
Häftad, 2012
389 kr
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When asked to describe her short stories, Edith Pearlman replied that they are stories about people in peculiar circumstances aching to Do The Right Thing. She elaborated with the same wit and intimacy that make her stories a delight to read:\u201cBefore I was a writer I was a reader; and reading …
Speed-Walk and Other Stories
Häftad, 2003
369 kr
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The characters in Speed-Walk and Other Stories often find themselves dislocated, living in places that do not resemble or feel like home. Their lives have somehow been turned on their axes, and often they cannot comprehend why. The stories in this stunning debut collection are united by their …
Bring Your Legs with You
Häftad, 2004
369 kr
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A boxer who brings his legs with him comes to the ring with the strength and stamina to make it through every round of a tough fight. In this new collection, winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Darrell Spencer delivers fiction with just that kind of power.Bring Your Legs with You …
Dangerous Men
Häftad, 1995
389 kr
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Geoffrey Becker's Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by published writers.In these tightly drafted stories, Becker creates a wide variety of distinct voices, …
Fado and Other Stories
Häftad, 1997
389 kr
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Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeThis collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, …
Man Who Loved Levittown
Häftad, 1985
389 kr
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This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. In Wetherell’s stories a suburban retiree’s assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during …
Out Loud
Häftad, 2014
389 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2008 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZESelected by Scott TurowFeeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcee Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: I feel lonely she wrote, then crossed it out. She didn't like …
Triple Time
Av Anne Sanow
Häftad, 2014
370 kr
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For Jill, a young American living in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s, life is in "a holding pattern" of long days in a restrictive place-"sandlocked nowhere," as another expat calls it. Others don't know how to leave, and try to adopt the country as their own. And to those who were born there, the …
Spirit Bird
Stories
Av Kent Nelson
Häftad, 2015
389 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeThe flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a …
This Angel on My Chest
Häftad, 2017
358 kr
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This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into …
Dog Years
Häftad, 2017
358 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2016 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZEWinner of the 2017 California Book Awards, first fiction categoryMany of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, …
Dogs of Detroit
Stories
Av Brad Felver
Häftad, 2019
379 kr
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The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases, grief drives the stories as a strong, reactionary force, and yet in other stories, that grief evolves …
Islands
Six Fictions
Av William Wall
Häftad, 2020
232 kr
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William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories …
Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories
Av Caroline Kim
Häftad, 2021
232 kr
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Winner, 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize | Finalist, 2021 Northern California Book Award | Longlist, 2021 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize | Longlist, 2020 The Story PrizeExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in …
Now You Know It All
Häftad, 2023
249 kr
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Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery—and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southerners venturing afar, these stories capture the crucial moment of irrevocable change. A young waitress …
Small in Real Life
Stories
Av Kelly Sather
Häftad, 2024
284 kr
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Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State. Exiled to a Malibu rehab, an alcoholic paparazzo spies on his celebrity friend …
Obligations to the Wounded
Häftad, 2025
232 kr
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Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeLonglist, 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | Winner, Minnesota Book Awards of 2025 | Winner, 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award | Finalist, 2024 Foreword Indies Award | Cowinner, The Boston Globe's Best 75 Books of 2024 Winner | The Minnesota Star Tribune …
Between Camelots
Inbunden, 2005
501 kr
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Between Camelots is about the struggle to forge relationships and the spaces that are left when that effort falls short. In the title story, a man at a backyard barbecue waits for a blind date who never shows up. He meets a stranger who advises him to give up the fight; to walk away from intimacy …
Newsworld
Inbunden, 2006
501 kr
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News is "one of the few things that connects us as a nation" observes the protagonist in the title story of Newsworld, a new collection by Todd James Pierce that explores America's obsession with news and entertainment culture. The characters in "Newsworld" seek to design realistic theme park …
Old Priest
Inbunden, 2013
501 kr
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The Old Priest is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing …
American Standard
Av John Blair
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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Winner of the 2002 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeSelected by Elizabeth HardwickIt is difficult to see what lurks beneath the surface of a muddy river, an alligator-infested lake, or a John Blair short story. The deep currents that drive a demure, devout, church-going woman to shoot her husband; the …
