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  • 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

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Fall

    Stories

    by Edith Pearlman ...
    Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with spectacle, drawing our focus to the eccentricities of those who would prefer to remain unnoticed. . . . Confronted with unexpected obstacles, these characters exchange the blurring comfort of routine with spontaneity and improvisation . . . . Full of vivid, intricate, nuanced portraits, confidently focused, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • 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

    $12.29 USD

  • 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

    $20.89 USD

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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

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Deep Down Dark

    The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

    by Héctor Tobar ...
    Narrated by Henry Leyva ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall

    A Novel

    by Will Chancellor ...
    A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut--a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction.Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus