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  • In the City

    par Joan Silber ...
    The rediscovered second novel from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Joan Silber—a wry, exquisitely told story of self-invention in 1920s New YorkLike all young people who move to Manhattan from elsewhere, Pauline sees her arrival in the city as an escape from the provincial entrapments of home. She seeks something more than her quiet life with her rough-mannered family in bucolic ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Mercy

    A Novel

    par Joan Silber ...
    **Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across decades and change the course of many lives, by a beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author**In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Improvement

    A Novel

    par Joan Silber ...
    The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them from one of America's most gifted writers of fiction, "our own country's Alice Munro" (The Washington Post).Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect, yet as she visits him ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Secrets of Happiness

    par Joan Silber ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength in this "expansive and elegantly crafted novel" (Fresh Air, NPR)."Rich with the complexities of life . . . the stories create a world made ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • The Size of the World

    A Novel

    par Joan Silber ...
    Love and family loyalty meet up with the allure of far-off vistas in elegant new fiction by an acclaimed novelist.A richly imagined novel—set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America—about men and women whose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how many "riffs there are to being human." Travelers, colonials, immigrants, and returned ex-pats ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ideas of Heaven

    A Ring of Stories

    par Joan Silber ...
    Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea BarrettIntense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Household Words

    A Novel

    par Joan Silber ...
    Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award"Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." — Chicago TribuneThe year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fools

    par Joan Silber ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award"'Linked' doesn't begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Emotionally, it's astounding…[A] beautiful, intricate, and wise collection." — New York Times Book ReviewWhen is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Winter 2024-25

    par John Skoyles, Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, Kellam Ayres, Justin Balog, Craig Burnett, Alex Chertok, Zachary Colter, Margarita Cruz, Stuart Dybeck, Ori Feinberg, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Taylor Light, Leslie McIntosh, Pablo Medina, Nancy Mitchell, Rosalie Moffett, Jarrett Moseley, Alexandra Napier, Alafia Nicole Sessions ...
    The Winter 2024-25 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2024-25 Issue, edited ... En savoir plus

    $12.35 CAD

  • The Art of Time in Fiction

    As Long as It Takes

    par Joan Silber ...
    Collections series Art of...
    Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    Improvement

    par Joan Silber ...
    Lu par Cassandra Campbell, Adenrele Ojo, Hillary Huber, R. C. Bray, Ramiz Monsef, Kate Reading, various narrators ...

    Version Longue

    6 heure 3 min

    One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect; yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker’s Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Why I Like This Story

    par Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD