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  • The Half-Known World

    On Writing Fiction

    by Robert Boswell ...
    A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tumbledown

    A Novel

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review)*A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" *At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

    Stories

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards is an exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by Robert Boswell one of our great storytellersSet mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man's obsessive visits to a fortuneteller leave him nearly homeless. Time collapses as two marriages slowly dissolve. And in the searing title story, a young man recounts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 4

    by Joan Frank, Ted Kehoe, Alexandra Marshall, Bill Roorbach, Douglas Trevor, Andria Nacina Cole, Federico Falco, Sarah Viren, Robert Boswell, Patricia Buddenhagen, Ladette Randolph ...
    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection.Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical theory who, in an effort to spice up his life, gets more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Soul in Paraphrase

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    There's a specter floating above the pews at afternoon mass. Father Montgovery has no idea why the ghostly presence has followed him around for years, but, when a longtime parishioner asks for help in getting his drug-addicted daughter clean, Father Montgovery must do his best to ignore the phantom and shift his focus to the physical, and sometimes harrowing, world. Written by esteemed author and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Houston Noir

    by Anton DiSclafani, Adrienne Perry, Robert Boswell, Larry Watts, Reyes Ramirez, Sarah Cortez, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Tom Abrahams, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Icess Fernandez Rojas0, Pia Pico1, Sehba Sarwar2, Stephanie Jane Evans3, Gwendolyn Zepeda4 ...
    Narrated by Gwendolyn Zepeda5, Mirron Willis6, Teri Schnaubelt7, Victoria Villareal8, Jamie K. Brown9, Diana Bustelo0, Reena Dutt1 ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Publisher's summaryBrand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.Critic reviews"Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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