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Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
6) The Censors
Author
Publisher
Curbstone Press
Pub. Date
c1988.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
520 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
DJStories is Schow's first greatest hits album, covering four decades of his efforts to shake you up, shock you awake, tweak your sensibilities and gun down your preconceptions. Thirty stories--count 'em, thirty!--that cover the entire spectrum of what you may find frightening. Monsters. Lovers. Spirits. Allies. Killers. The earthly and unearthly. The insane and the too-sane. The dead, the living and the in-between. Fictional folks who just might...
10) Florida
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Florida: a place of storms, snakes, and sinkholes, and so much more. Lauren Groff explores a different side of her adopted home state in this collection of stories.
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as fairy tales were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages. Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature with...
12) Five-carat soul
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 620 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature-perhaps our most beloved author-a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has skyrocketed worldwide. Now, Family Furnishings...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of unforgettable short stories that explore the wondrous transformation between grief and hope, a journey often marked by moments of unexpected grace. Set in California, Tell Me One Thing and Other Stories is an uplifting and poignant book about people finding their way toward happiness. In Get Your Dead Man's Clothes, Irish Twins, and Aftermath, Jamie O'Connor finally reckons with his tumultuous childhood, which propels him to an unexpected...
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