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  • Late Night, Early Morning

    Stories

    by Allen Wier ...
    “This is a powerful, evocative book filled with the contradictions of loving things you will one day have to leave behind: a place, a person, a mood, a memory, a word. It is full of all things that we look for and return to in our literature: subtle fire, poignant humor, clear-eyed sadness, and layered love.”—Scott BlackwoodWhile Allen Wier is perhaps best known as a prizewinning novelist, he is ... Read more

    $18.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blanco

    by Allen Wier ...
    Violence and loneliness tinge the lives of a Texas mother and her two grown children whose family ties suffer under their individual secrets and inabilities to communicate with one another. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • As We Were Saying

    Sewanee Writers on Writing

    by Adrianne Harun, Andrew Hudgins, Naomi Iizuka, Margot Livesey, William Logan, Maurice Manning, Charles Martin, Jill McCorkle, Christine Schutt, Sidney Wade, Allen Wier, Dan O'Brien ...
    Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Departing as Air

    by Allen Wier ...
    Departing as Air chronicles the memories of Jessie, now old and widowed, as she nears the end of her life and looks back on her two marriages, her emotional breakdown and recovery, and her ultimate acceptance--and celebration--of life. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Place for Outlaws

    by Allen Wier ...
    A Place For Outlaws starts off as a family novel, as warmly evocative and intimate over time as an album of family photographs, and imperceptibly, turns into a shocker, grounded in subterfuge, perversity, and violence. The overall movement brings good and evil face-to-face in an unexpected way to contend for the soul of a woman then her son. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • A Manual for Cleaning Women

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    by Lucia Berlin ...
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the L... ... Read more

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  • The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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    Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with ... Read more

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  • Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)

    A Novel

    by James McBride ...
    **Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for FictionWinner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME MagazineA Washington Post Notable NovelFrom the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocer.. ... Read more

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  • Writing Fiction

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    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
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    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

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  • Last Exit to Brooklyn

    A Novel

    by Hubert Selby Jr. ...
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  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

    A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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