Short Story Collection | Short Story Collection
Aug.04.2008
In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians. Plagued by madness and guided by an...
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Jul.30.2008
Months and Seasons is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks's award-winning The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea. With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous...
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Jul.29.2008
Fresh, tough, and thoroughly addictive, this sparkling debut calls to mind the beloved and bestselling works of Miriam Toews and Mark Haddon.
With an irresistible combination of playfulness and empathy, these effervescent, sometimes heartbreaking tales of underachieving adults, unfairly burdened...
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Jul.27.2008
Though in her stories Sarojini deals with the social issues but she is basically a writer of Individual values .In Oriya literature , a reader can see there is always a conflict between social values and individual values.This conflict can be seen from the first short story Rebati written by Fakir...
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Jul.13.2008
These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In "Hole,...
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Jul.05.2008
First there was the "gifted child," then the "inner child." Now in an eloquent and inspirational new work, Lillian Rubin, bestselling author of Worlds of Pain and Intimate Strangers, brings us The Transcendent Child.
She starts with a question few psychologists have asked, yet...
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Jun.29.2008
From the author of the acclaimed novel Living Dead Girl , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, come twelve haunting stories about people caught somewhere between love and madness. Simplify mines the often surreal terrain of people on the margins of life: from the man with a photo of...
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Jun.20.2008
Short story: "Negative 9.80 Meters Per Second Squared"
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