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Allison Amend's writing is both thoughtful and entertaining, with a strong sense of humor throughout. Allison Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois, on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While there, she learned never to live downwind from a pig farm and how to put English on a cue ball. She lives in New York, writing and teaching fiction.
702) Fireside gothic
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A collection of three gothic novellas from the best-selling author of The American Boy includes tales of ghosts in a cathedral that speak through music and of a couple who live in a remote cottage with a strange cat.
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"This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. Many of the stories are modern takes on classic monsters crafted with twisted plots. The Wolfman of 'Wolfman and Janice' is doing the best he can under very trying circumstances, especially when confronted with eating his elderly neighbor's cat. There's an adolescent vampire-wannabe who is suffering...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 25
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""El Huge" reveals how small-town, small-time teens can accomplish Big Ugly Things on their own. "Big Girl" chronicles the media's fascination with the towering anxieties of a sixty-foot tall teen. "The Pill," the collection's previously unpublished centerpiece, celebrates a "miracle cure" for obesity that sends society to a grimly delightful new utopia. "Such People in It," also new to readers, welcomes us to a brave new world where cowardice is...
706) Selected stories
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Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
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Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the YearIn her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not...
708) Prodigals: stories
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"A collection of stories, most of which have been published in The New Yorker and other magazines"--
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This selection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form-novel, essay, autobiographical reflection-did he span so many years. Here, within the covers of a single volume, the reader can trace Hesse's development from the aestheticism of his youth through the realism and surrealism of the...
710) Hellraiser: the toll
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Kirsty Cotton recieves a letter addressed to the woman she's been on the run from for over thirty years.
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"A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality." -NPR Books
The English-language debut of "one of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literature" (Revista Gatopardo): a collection of surreal, ironic, and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico.
The provocateur...
713) Estabulario
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Estabulario es como el hábitat controlado en el que se experimenta con las ratas en los laboratorios. Una colección de seis relatos largos: en medio del estruendo de disparos y explosiones, dos amigas charlan por el móvil mientras cocinan para unos misteriosos invitados, hasta que un día la televisión empieza a hablarles; el software que administra el uniforme de trabajo de un pobre diablo se estropea y el servicio técnico le deja en espera......
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). He also wrote a number of successful short stories, the very best of which are contained within this brand new collection. They include: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County",...
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A partir de la aparición de Pedro Páramo, en marzo de 1955, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, El gallo de oro. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematográfico, probablemente se trate de la obra menos conocida del autor mexicano. No obstante ese desconocimiento, la valoración literaria está al mismo nivel que Pedro Páramo y Llano en Llamas.
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Dinh's gift is for constructing, in the manner of Italo Calvino, simple narratives that quickly frame larger questions; with a poet's timing, the author builds his stories to the one or few climactic sentences that brand them with unforgettable meaning. In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the universality of language: "Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic. One can...
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A brave and unnerving debut collection about life in wartime
In 1991 a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. In her harrowing fiction debut, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a human face on the lost, the missing, the exiled, and the invisible. She brings to life perpetrators and victims, soldiers and civilians, diplomats and human rights workers: a man trapped in a cellar witnesses the erasure...
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Ellen Gilchrist proves herself once again to be a master of the intertwining tale in this collection of stories following the lives of different members of a Mississippi social elite, humorously nicknamed "The Cabal." In the novella that inspired the collection's title, the most powerful person in a room is the one who has been trusted with all of its secrets. This has made psychotherapist, Jim Jaspers', recent bizarre behavior not just worrying,...
719) Lucky girls: stories
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First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger's debut story collection
Lucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. The characters-expatriates, often by accident-are attracted to the places they find themselves in a romantic way, or repelled by a landscape where every object seems strange. For them, falling in love can be inseparable from the place...
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"...chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection, or its lack. Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic, redemptive act, if he...
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