Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series – serie
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Copy Cats
Stories
Av David Crouse
E-bok, 2010
474 kr
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Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse’s powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities. “Who are you?” a homeless man asks his would-be benefactor in the title story. On the surface it’s a simple question, but one that would …
Theory of Light and Matter
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E-bok, 2010
636 kr
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These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In "Hole," a young …
CAUTION Men in Trees
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E-bok, 2010
456 kr
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The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. As suggested by the collection''s epigraph from Superman—"Did you say kryptonite?"—the characters in these stories have reached a point where they realize …
Dance Boots
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E-bok, 2010
421 kr
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In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the …
Drowning Lessons
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Av Peter Selgin
E-bok, 2011
474 kr
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The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what …
How Far She Went
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Av Mary Hood
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing-sometimes worse-lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service. In "A Country Girl," for example, she creates an idyllic valley where a barefoot girl sings melodies "low and private as a lullaby" …
Black Elvis
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E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps. In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs …
Piano Tuner
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Av Peter Meinke
E-bok, 2012
421 kr
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In The Piano Tuner , Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these …
Curled in the Bed of Love
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E-bok, 2012
474 kr
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To read Curled in the Bed of Love is to feel the incessant tug between devotion and desire that can unmake even the closest couple. These eleven stories are set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in true Left Coast style, Catherine Brady's characters are as resolute in evading middle-class …
Ate It Anyway
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Av Ed Allen
E-bok, 2012
421 kr
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In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories gauge the tension between what we …
Break Any Woman Down
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Av Dana Johnson
E-bok, 2012
378 kr
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In Break Any Woman Down , Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives. In the title story, La …
Living with Snakes
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E-bok, 2013
386 kr
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In Daniel Curley's stories, passionate rage and cool, clear hatred alter the terms of even the most basic human relationships, etching odd patterns on the surface of the natural world-a man applies the methods of Mata-Hari to the task of keeping track of his ex-wife; the victim of a pickpocket …
No Lie Like Love
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Av Paul Rawlins
E-bok, 2012
386 kr
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A shady financier visits his small hometown, a middle-aged divorcÉ emerges from a life of drastic austerity and self-denial, a sick and dying professor discovers the healing touch of a former student. From the South African veldt to the barren Utah desert, from the green lawns of suburbia to …
Ghost Traps
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Av Robert Abel
E-bok, 2013
421 kr
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Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. In the title story, Harper learns to fish from a man whose son is …
Why Men Are Afraid of Women
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E-bok, 2013
421 kr
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The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the center of this prize-winning collection of stories. There is, for example, Jack Segal, who is thirty-six and who owns a record store on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica and who …
Winter Money
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E-bok, 2013
439 kr
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The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner''s stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there''s a better …
Big Bend
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E-bok, 2013
386 kr
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Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach''s characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways. In "Fog," a …
Bright Shards of Someplace Else
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E-bok, 2014
474 kr
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In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else , Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters—an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and …
Faulty Predictions
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E-bok, 2014
509 kr
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In Karin Lin-Greenberg’s Faulty Predictions , young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In “Editorial Decisions,” members of the editorial board of a high school literary magazine are witnesses to an unspeakable act of violence. Two grandmothers, …
Suicide Club
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Av Toni Graham
E-bok, 2015
509 kr
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The people in these eight interlaced stories are “bound together by the worst sort of grief,” the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middleAmerican options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and …
Better Than War
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E-bok, 2015
464 kr
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The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. The everyday life of each character subtly reflects viewpoints that are simultaneously Iranian and American, …
Current That Carries
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Av Lisa Graley
E-bok, 2016
492 kr
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This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails. Set in West Virginia, the stories take up residence with rural characters who defend their mailboxes …
Jungle Around Us
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Av Anne Raeff
E-bok, 2016
492 kr
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"You’ll see how beautiful it is in the morning—jungle all around us," says one of the characters in Anne Raeff’s story collection, referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also provide solace. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical and real, taking the reader from war-torn …
What We Do with the Wreckage
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E-bok, 2018
474 kr
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The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Following losses big and small, environmental and familial, universal and personal, the best of us try to recover and rebuild. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or …
Slow Release
Stories about Death from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
E-bok, 2019
474 kr
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Death, that ending of all endings, 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, have won …
Down on the Sidewalk
Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
E-bok, 2020
474 kr
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Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to …
Good and Balanced
Stories about Sports from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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Set on the field of play, or maybe just its memory, these stories of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Here, even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball get a fresh take through stories that might …
