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20 produkter
Abbott Awaits
A Novel
Häftad, 2011
383 kr
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A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.In Abbott we see a modern-day Sisyphus: he is the …
If the Sky Falls
Stories
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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If the Sky Falls is the debut short-story collection from award-winning fiction writer Nicholas Montemarano. These eleven stories show why Jayne Anne Phillips has called Montemarano ""an American stylist capable of redeeming our darkest dreams.""Redemption in these intense and sometimes violent …
Uke Rivers Delivers
Stories
Av R. T. Smith
Häftad, 2006
317 kr
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In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate …
If the Heart Is Lean
Stories
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective. In ""Chestnut Season,"" a young woman stalled in traffic sees her future self parked …
Stations West
A Novel
Häftad, 2010
366 kr
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Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of ""Indians, outlaws, and immigrants"" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained. In Stations West, four generations of …
My Bright Midnight
A Novel
Av Josh Russell
Häftad, 2010
318 kr
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Walter Schmidt's life isn't simple: His wife Nadine wants to live next door to her dead first husband's mother, the Mississippi River is three blocks down the street and rising dangerously, FDR is dead, and the war seems like it will never end - but for the most part, things are going Walter's way. …
Greatest Show
Stories
Häftad, 2012
383 kr
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Fire sweeps along the wall of a circus tent while inside thousands of people enjoy a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey matinee. Within minutes, flames consume the canvas and vast sections collapse, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.Inspired by the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, the …
Tree of Forgetfulness
A Novel
Av Pam Durban
Häftad, 2012
383 kr
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In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerising and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. …
Horse People
Stories
Häftad, 2013
399 kr
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Set in the pastoral horse country of Rapidian, Virginia, the stories in Cary Holladay's Horse People chronicle the lives of the Fenton family through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II. At the center of these interconnected stories is Nelle, a northern debutante who marries into …
Joy, PA
A Novel
Häftad, 2015
383 kr
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A darkly insightful evocation of the post-industrial era, Joy, PA tells the story of a family teetering on the precipice of ruin. The Augenbaughs live in a broken and decaying town where the last vestiges of country-club wealth run up against the terrible realities of working-class poverty. …
Boy's Book of Nervous Breakdowns
Stories
Av Tom Paine
Häftad, 2015
318 kr
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The insightful and provocative stories in Tom Paine's collection spring from a series of seismic events that rocked the post-millennium world. News headlines from the last decade - the fall of Baghdad, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the BP oil spill - not only inspire the settings but also …
History of Art
Stories
Häftad, 2016
383 kr
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The stories in History of Art examine the definitive, yet paradoxical, preoccupations of humankind - namely art-making and war - and the emotions that underpin both: passion and sentimentality, obsession and delusion, ambition and insecurity, fear and envy. Luongo casts the infamous, famous, and …
Unknown Caller
A Novel
Av Debra Spark
Häftad, 2016
383 kr
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For as long Daniella has been married to Joel, they've received phone calls at odd hours, and late at night. Daniella knows the caller as Liesel, Joel's first wife, a woman whose sudden departure devastated her husband. After years of disruptive, long-distance phone calls, Liesel rings to tell Joel …
Love Is No Small Thing
Stories
Av Meghan Kenny
Häftad, 2017
318 kr
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Meghan Kenny's debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities, be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal. A father may teach his teenage son ""Hearts …
Visitations
Stories
Av Lee Upton
Inbunden, 2017
399 kr
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Poignant, exquisite, and endlessly witty - Kirkus Review (Starred Review)""People, the species defies logic!"" reflects the protagonist of one of the dazzling, intricate stories in Visitations. In this latest collection from Lee Upton, characters navigate often bewildering situations, from the …
Hybrid Creatures
Stories
Av Matthew Baker, Michael Griffith
Häftad, 2018
299 kr
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Hybrid Creatures, Matthew Baker's sharp and innovative collection, follows four very different protagonists as they search for, and struggle with, connection: an amateur hacker attempts to track down his vanished mentor; a math prodigy, the child of divorced parents, struggles with being torn …
Time for Bed
Stories
Av Wendy Rawlings, Michael Griffith
Häftad, 2019
318 kr
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Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings's Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or …
Operation Dimwit
A Penelope Lemon Novel
Av Inman Majors, Michael Griffith
Inbunden, 2020
467 kr
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Penelope Lemon is back for more madcap mom adventures in Inman Majors's hilariously unruly Operation Dimwit.It's summertime, and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky, free, and tired of living vicariously through nighttime trysts with erotic novels, Penelope can begin phase two of her …
King of the Animals
Stories
Av Josh Russell, Michael Griffith
Häftad, 2021
383 kr
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The innovative and dazzling short stories collected in Josh Russell's King of the Animals explore love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday.A teenager and his family seek asylum in an Atlanta IKEA after their split-level is burned down …
Mannequin and Wife
Stories
Av Jen Fawkes, Michael Griffith
Häftad, 2020
383 kr
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In Mannequin and Wife, the debut story collection from Jen Fawkes, sharp and imaginative tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous.Readers of these adventurous fictions will encounter a flock of …
