Short Stories (single author)
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Dusk and Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreFirst published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital–each narrative a masterpiece of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0812981138
- Language: English
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The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
$15.95 Add to cartGodzilla’s in a twelve-step program. A soul-sucking Mummy stalks Elvis and John F. Kennedy. Joe Bob Briggs has a moral dilemma: If your girlfriend turns zombie on you, what do you do?
And that’s the t- Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 369
- Publish Date: February 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1892391945
- Language: English
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Let’s Tell This Story Properly
$16.95 Read moreMen behave badly in these stories, women suffer or negotiate for power, families bicker and try to cooperate. There is Uganda, and there is Britain, and then all the miles in between.–Los Angeles Tim
- Author: Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1945492228
- Language: English
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I Would Prefer Not to: Essential Stories
$18.00 Read moreA new selection of Melville’s darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition
Includes “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, “Benito Cereno” and “The Lightning-Rod Man” A lawyer hi- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1782277463
- Language: English
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
$20.00 Add to cartA breaved father stalks his son’s killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0679767304
- Language: English
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Young Skins: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
Winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Enter the small, ru- Author: Barrett, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123325
- Language: English
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Know the Mother
$23.32 Add to cartShort, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.
- Author: Cooper, Desiree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0814341497
- Language: English
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Qué Bien Me Haces Cuando Me Haces Bien / How Well You Do Me When You Do Me Well
$24.95 Read moreNo esperaba nada y lo encontr? todo.
Qu? bien me haces cuando me haces bien es mi tercer libro de relatos cortos tras Finales que merecen una historia (2018) y Si nos ense?aran a perder, ganar?amos si… [more below]- Author: Espinosa, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8425363322
- Language: Spanish
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Honored Guest
$22.00 Add to cartAmong the “best American short stories of the past two decades” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers.
In short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Williams, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400095522
- Language: English
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The Winter Father
$18.95 Read moreExquisitely powerful short stories by the masterful Andre Dubus. Originally published in two volumes, The Times Are Never So Bad and Finding a Girl in America.
This collection includes some of Andre D- Series: Collected Short Stories and Novellas
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1567926177
- Language: English
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I Live in the Slums: Stories
$26.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature “There’s something inescapably- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0300247435
- Language: English
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Avenue of Champions
$21.95 Read moreDaniel is a young M?is man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns
- Author: Kerr, Conor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0889714185
- Language: English
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The Looking-Glass: Essential Stories
$18.00 Read moreEnchanting, fresh translations of the finest stories by Brazil’s greatest writer and author of short stories, cited as the greatest black writer in Western literature
“Machado de Assis showed the huma- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1782278079
- Language: English
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The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories
$22.00 Add to cartAn exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.
Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a s… [more below]- Author: Van Booy, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133047
- Language: English
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Cita, La
$22.95 Read moreSo here it is. An invitation to surprise, to admiration. Those are, among many other things, the stories of Do?a Emilia Pardo Baz?n. If you’ve never read them before, I envy you. You are about to have… [more below]
- Author: Pardo Bazan, Emilia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 8418451815
- Language: Spanish
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Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School
$20.00 Read more-A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 fiction title 2004
Each of the stories in Fiction Gallery will hold you spellbound from first to last page, while also exemplifying the very best in literary fiction. Groupe- Author: Steele, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 21 2004
- ISBN10: 1582344620
- Language: English
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Si Nos Enseñaran a Perder, GanarÃamos Siempre / If We Were Taught How to Lose, We Would Always Win
$24.95 Read moreSi miras la vida de cerca, no tiene ningún sentido.
Este libro entronca con ese increÃble verso: «Al lugar donde has sido feliz no debieras tratar de volver . Es una de
Aléjate y disfrútala!- Author: Espinosa, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 8425358256
- Language: Spanish
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You Never Get It Back
$16.00 Read moreThe 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… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Adams, Cara Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388135
- Language: English
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
$26.00 Read more*Winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award*
Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for D
*Winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction*
*Winner of the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award*- Author: Bhanoo, Sindya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220870
- Language: English
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That Old Country Music: Stories
$17.00 Read moreONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR – LIBRARY JOURNAL
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the m- Author: Barry, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1101911352
- Language: English
