Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction – serie
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23 produkter
Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
Stories
Häftad, 2017
236 kr
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2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los AngelesWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in …
Alice Stories
Inbunden, 2007
399 kr
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Wisconsin is not where Alice, a girl raised in Florida, meant to end up. But when she falls in love with Anders Dahl, a descendant of Norwegian farmers born for generations in the same stone farmhouse, she realizes that to love Anders is to settle into a life in Wisconsin in the small house they …
Last Call
Stories
Av K. L. Cook
Inbunden, 2004
366 kr
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K. L. Cook’s debut collection of linked stories spans three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting …
Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories
Häftad, 2008
236 kr
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The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, …
Call Me Ahab
A Short Story Collection
Av Anne Finger
Häftad, 2009
236 kr
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Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, "two female icons of disability." Or the story of "Moby Dick, or, The Leg," told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications …
Bliss and Other Short Stories
Av Ted Gilley
Häftad, 2010
220 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A Cambodian refugee negotiates the icy waters of American social and sexual life. A young couple seeks …
Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories
Av Greg Hrbek
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek’s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human-and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors-and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is …
Little Sinners, and Other Stories
Av Karen Brown
Häftad, 2012
236 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a …
Now We Will Be Happy
Häftad, 2014
220 kr
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Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal …
Last Call
Stories
Av K. L. Cook
Häftad, 2013
252 kr
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K. L. Cook’s debut collection of linked stories spans three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting …
Nocturnal America
Av John Keeble
Häftad, 2013
317 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of tales returns readers to the American Northwest so deftly observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble's previous works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can …
Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories
Av Xhenet Aliu
Häftad, 2013
236 kr
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Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of …
When Are You Coming Home?
Stories
Häftad, 2015
236 kr
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Humans have always connected deeply to the idea of home. In Bryn Chancellor’s nine stories, home means, in part, the physical spaces: the buildings, cities and towns, the fragile, imperious landscapes of the region. But home is also profoundly rooted in intangibles. Set in urban and rural Arizona, …
One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist
Stories
Häftad, 2016
252 kr
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Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek …
Better Times
Short Stories
Av Sara Batkie
Häftad, 2018
236 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what’s happening in places people don’t think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women’s lives when the …
Extinction Events
Stories
Häftad, 2019
236 kr
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In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who …
If the Body Allows It
Stories
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey. Suffering from a chronic …
What Isn't Remembered
Stories
Häftad, 2021
252 kr
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Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in What Isn’t Remembered explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from …
Vanished
Stories
Häftad, 2022
252 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she …
Boundless Deep, and Other Stories
Av Gen Del Raye
Häftad, 2023
252 kr
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Longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short StoryNamed a Public Picks 2023 by Public BooksWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite everything. By turns …
Thanks for This Riot
Stories
Häftad, 2024
252 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionLonglisted for the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionThanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselor is taunted by …
Invitation
Stories
Av Mi Jin Kim
Häftad, 2025
252 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionIn Invitation, men and women try and fail to connect to the people they want to be with. As they remember the first people who dominated their lives-parents, best friends, cousins, crushes-they find themselves repeating old patterns. …
Vulture Gold
Stories
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionWelcome to a dark country of sadness and wonder. Where a wedding dress turns a reluctant bride into a flock of birds, and families put on their wolf coats before devouring one another. These growling, prickly-feathered stories blur …
