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Near-Perfect Gift
Häftad, 2005
269 kr
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The stories in A Near-Perfect Gift revolve around the often hardscrabble small-town life in one rural village. Like any other community inhabited by the human race, it's a place where the banal and the improbable coalesce, a place with its share of common tragedies and uncommon madmen: some howl at …
Good for the Jews
Av Debra Spark
Häftad, 2010
250 kr
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Good for the Jews is a smart, funny, sexy novel set in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Bush administration. Part mystery and part stranger-comes-to town story, Good for the Jews is loosely based on the biblical book of Esther. Like Esther, Debra Spark's characters deal with anti-Semitism and the way …
American Wife
Av Elaine Ford
Häftad, 2007
303 kr
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Of Elaine Ford’s novel, Missed Connections, the Washington Post wrote that it is a work “of small episodes, of precise sentences, of unusual clarity.” That same clarity proves an unsettling force in Ford’s stories, where precision of prose often belies uncertainties hidden beneath. In the title …
Agnostics
Inbunden, 2007
485 kr
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“Who knows if there’s a God? There’s us, now, and caterpillars and other insects and mulch. So thinks Stephen Wirth as he watches his marriage collapse. Between bouts of alcoholism and attempts to restore a fleet of decrepit boats, Stephen does his best to help his daughters cope with their mother …
Century of November
A Novel
Häftad, 2005
234 kr
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Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novelA haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope."Gripping, damning, and transfixing."---Entertainment Weekly" . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . . . [A] small classic of graceful language and …
Cities in the Sea
Inbunden, 2003
664 kr
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In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verité, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters—from a business man to a …
Quick
Stories
Av T.M. McNally
Inbunden, 2004
485 kr
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From the author of Until Your Heart Stops and Almost Home, Quick is T. M. McNally's collection of powerful and starkly honest stories of American life.The stories in Quick are complex, sometimes harsh, yet always unafraid of the dark truths many of the characters are forced to confront. Dense and …
Miss Kansas City
Av Joan Frank
Inbunden, 2006
485 kr
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Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one …
Bad and Stupid Girl
Av Jean McGarry
Inbunden, 2006
485 kr
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Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed.Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle to find their way in a …
Watch of Nightingales
Av Liza Wieland
Inbunden, 2008
485 kr
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A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public …
