Iowa Short Fiction Award – serie
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36 produkter
Articles of Faith
Häftad, 2000
205 kr
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This is a collection of short stories about silence and the complications thar arise when a silence is kept too long or suddenly broken. Subjects addressed include the loss of innocence, sexual betrayal, and the helplessness of parents before their children.
Troublemakers
Av John McNally, John McNally m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
205 kr
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A collection of short stories about men on the edge. From the streets of Chicago's southwest side to the rural roads of Nebraska to the small towns of southern Illinois, these men tread a very fine line between right and wrong, love and hate, humour and horror.
Whose World is This?
Häftad, 2007
156 kr
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Lee Montgomery's surprising stories capture moments in women's lives when, pushed to the edge, they teeter between the complete bewilderment of loss and the lurking possibility of found. These are not stories about diets, designer jeans, and bad boyfriends; these are stories that dismantle the …
How to Leave Hialeah
Häftad, 2009
165 kr
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United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capó Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of …
Of This New World
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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Allegra Hyde’s debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink. Stories jump …
Father Guards the Sheep
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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In Sari Rosenblatt's collection, by turns tender and hilarious, we see fathers who are bullies and nervous watchdogs, haunted by their own pasts and fear of the future they may never see. And who do their daughters become? A substitute teacher who encounters mouthy students who believe she's not …
You Never Get It Back
Häftad, 2021
165 kr
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The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in …
Stories No One Hopes Are about Them
Häftad, 2022
180 kr
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At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are ni de aquí, ni de allá—neither from here nor there—straddle competing worlds, disrupt paradigms, and transition from objects of other people’s …
Woods
Stories
Häftad, 2022
190 kr
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The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas—a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these stories …
No Use Pretending
Häftad, 2023
195 kr
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The characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts to relieve their suffering via connections with other people or through the pursuit of addictive attachments (to opiates in one story, …
Man in the Banana Trees
Häftad, 2024
254 kr
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The stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future—from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New …
Everything Flirts
Philosophical Romances
Av Sharon Wahl
Häftad, 2024
254 kr
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At the heart of the stories in Everything Flirts are some of life’s trickiest questions: Why is it so hard to make the first move on a date? How do we find the person we will love? If you finally find a person to love, how do you convince them to love you back?With a mixture of humor and reverence, …
Love, Dirt
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a trip to Chile hides in his parents’ bedroom to avoid being caught fooling around with a local boy. An …
What Mennonite Girls Are Good For
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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A Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister’s daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family’s faith toward religious doubt. Stumbling comically at times, Ruthie navigates life with and without the rules in which she’s …
How to Court Disaster
Häftad, 2026
195 kr
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How to Court Disaster takes us from wide expanses of open ocean to the enclosed spaces of grimy dive bars, echoing caves, and the holds of a musty ship. A grieving mother explores the secret chambers of a cave system. A stranded sailor joins the crew of a movie being filmed on a remote tropical …
Box in Which We Live
Häftad, 2026
195 kr
Kommande
Encompassing a wide range of formal approaches and genres, Samuel Rafael Barber captures the disparate manifestations of power and powerlessness in this era of global neoliberalism. The stories in The Box in Which We Live investigate the existential torment inflicted upon marginalized people by …
Kind of Things Saints Do
Av Laura Valeri
Häftad, 2002
205 kr
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From the Anglo-American woman who makes a spectacle of herself trying to be Cuban, to the estranged son leading his father on a hostile hike in New Mexico, Valeri's characters are loaded with desire and anger. The stories grow through subtle shifts, and reveal unexpected moments of clarity.
Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes
Häftad, 2004
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The stories in Merrill Feitell's award-winning collection, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, examine the fleeting and unexpected moments of human connection, reminding us of the indelible impact we have on one another no matter how insignificant or anonymous we might feel under our huge, collective …
Things Kept, Things Left Behind
Häftad, 2006
165 kr
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The stories in ""Things Kept, Things Left Behind"" explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. Jim Tomlinson's characters each face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. Starkly …
Permanent Visitors
Häftad, 2006
165 kr
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Settled amid the seasonal amusements and condominium-lined beaches of the Florida coast, the characters who inhabit Kevin Moffett's award-winning stories reach out of their lives to find that something unexpected and mysterious has replaced what used to be familiar. Some are stalled in the present, …
One Dog Happy
Av Molly McNett
Häftad, 2008
165 kr
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In this award-winning debut collection, Molly McNett couples laugh-out-loud dialogue and wry observation reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor with disquieting strains of dashed hope, troubled sexuality, and disillusionment.The adults in these stories can seem as hapless and helpless as the younger …
Invite
Häftad, 2008
165 kr
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Intense inner and outer monologues resonate through the lives of Glen Pourciau's characters. We hear the voice of a man who will not stop talking, the voice of a man who does not want to talk, the voice of a man stunned into silence by his sudden awareness of a desire he did not know he felt, and …
Pulp and Paper
2011 John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Av Josh Rolnick
Häftad, 2011
165 kr
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Lovers Set Down Their Spoons
Häftad, 2014
165 kr
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Winner oF The 2014 Iowa short fiction award, Heather A. Slomski’s debut story collection The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons brings us a fresh new voice in literary fiction. In prose spare and daring, elegant yet startling, these stories drop their roots in reality, but take intermittent leaps into …
When Mystical Creatures Attack
Häftad, 2014
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In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman’s high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest socio-political problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, "a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would be …
Excommunicados
Häftad, 2015
175 kr
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By turns haunting, hilarious, and heart breaking, Charles Haverty’s debut collection charts the journeys of men, women, and children cast out of familiar territory into emotional terra incognita where people and things are rarely what they seem. These twelve stories are populated with exnuns and …
November Storm
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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In each of the storIes in Robert Oldshue’s debut collection, the characters want to be decent but fi nd that hard to defi ne. In the fi rst story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but …
