Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. – serie
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12 produkter
Super America
Stories
Av Anne Panning
E-bok, 2010
492 kr
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In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream—and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne …
Pale of Settlement
Stories
E-bok, 2010
492 kr
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In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family’s past. This collection of linked short stories takes its title from the name of the …
Please Come Back To Me
Stories and a Novella
E-bok, 2010
474 kr
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Please Come Back To Me is another remarkable collection by an author the New York Times has called “a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.” In “The Nurse and the Black Lagoon” a woman tries to understand why her teenage son has been accused of a disturbing crime. In “Testimony” an adult …
Invention of Flight
Stories
E-bok, 2010
408 kr
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Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters—and her settings—are, most of them, midwestern. There is the staunchly midwestern wife in the story "Kentucky People," for instance. She was born in this house in this Indiana town, a …
Invisibles
Stories
Av Hugh Sheehy
E-bok, 2012
421 kr
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Though Hugh Sheehy’s often tragic, sometimes gruesome stories feature bloodied knives and mysterious disappearances, at the heart of these thoughtful thrillers are finely crafted character studies of people who wrestle with the darker aspects of human nature—grief, violence, loneliness, and the …
Quarry
Stories
E-bok, 2012
492 kr
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At the heart of this collection of five short stories and the title novella is the powerful interconnection between parents and children, nostalgia and memory, and the collective emotional intimacies and transactions that configure human behavior. Incisive and witty meditations on the disruptions …
Evening News
Stories
E-bok, 2013
421 kr
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Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding …
Sorry I Worried You
Stories
Av Gary Fincke
E-bok, 2013
421 kr
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In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption. In his world, as easily as one man becomes a hero, another is riddled with failure. Fincke weaves together the large and small tragedies …
Viewing Room
Stories
E-bok, 2013
474 kr
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In The Viewing Room , two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing witness in chilling testimony of grief and …
If We Were Electric
Stories
E-bok, 2020
386 kr
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If We Were Electric ’s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, …
Day’s Pay
Stories about Work from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
E-bok, 2020
474 kr
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Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O''Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, …
Perfect Souvenir
Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
E-bok, 2020
474 kr
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Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O''Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred …
