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  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013

    Including stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, and Lily Tuck

    by Laura Furman, Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, Jim Shepard ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ploughshares Fall 2014 Guest-Edited by Percival Everett

    by Richard Bausch, Aimee Bender, Edith Pearlman ...
    Series series Ploughshares
    The Fall 2014 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Percival Everett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Percival Everett (Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Everett writes in his introduction, the ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Honeydew

    Stories

    by Edith Pearlman ...
    A collection of short stories, "each one a small gem, [exploring] complicated relationships and strange conundrums found in everyday life" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).A Notable Book of the Year: New York Times , Washington PostA Top ten Book of the Year: Los Angeles Times ,</st... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Father Brother Keeper

    Stories

    by Nathan Poole, Edith Pearlman ...
    “This moving debut collection examines complicated family relationships in the rural American South . . . Rich with symbolism and rhythmic prose” (Publishers Weekly).**A Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this story collection set in rural Georgia investigates small moments that illuminate life-altering struggles: a man slipping into dementia is abandoned at a diner with his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Vaquita and Other Stories

    by Edith Pearlman ...
    Series series
    • Winner of the 1996 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeWhen asked to describe her short stories, Edith Pearlman replied that they are stories about people in peculiar circumstances aching to Do The Right Thing. She elaborated with the same wit and intimacy that make her stories a delight to read:"Before I was a writer I was a reader; and reading remains a necessary activity, occupying several joyous ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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    Honeydew

    Stories

    by Edith Pearlman ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Tova Mirvis ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

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    Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son's binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment - so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of nursing. One night, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. Who are these people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic bliss? In the coming weeks, Nina encounters the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Forty Rooms

    by Olga Grushin ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity—of women’s choices—that no modern novel has explored so deeply.“Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

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    Something Rich and Strange

    Selected Stories

    by Ron Rash ...
    Narrated by Christian Baskous ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 3 min

    From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, two O Henry prizes, and a finalist ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014

    Edited by Laura Furman ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothel in the old Wild West. They feature a dazzling array of characters: a young American falling in love in Japan, a girl raised by snake-handling ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

    Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi

    Edited by Laura Furman ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Best American Short Stories 2013

    Edited by Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are." The Best American Short Stories 2013 ... Read more

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