Category: Short Stories

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : April 2020

Seller ID: 167260

ISBN-13: 9781496828521

Condition: New

Frank Yerby's first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio. He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing. Yet, few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a short story in his school newspaper in 1936, the first of nine stories he would publish in the 1930s and '40s. Most stories appeared in small journals and mag...
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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Doubleday : March 2023

Seller ID: 192105

ISBN-13: 9780385549073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

By: Baggott, Julianna

Price: $25.99

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing : March 2023

Seller ID: 194703

ISBN-13: 9798200873562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories (Stonewall Inn Editions)

By: Barnett, Allen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr : January 1991

Seller ID: 191922

ISBN-13: 9780312058241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

By: Berriault, Gina

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 1997

Seller ID: 188914

ISBN-13: 9781887178389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award f
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Fidelity: Five Stories

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : August 2018

Seller ID: 179299

ISBN-13: 9781640090750

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." --New York Times Book Review Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within. "Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and...
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Watch With Me: and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : January 2018

Seller ID: 140222

ISBN-13: 9781619028319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that--with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers--here approaches the Shakespearean. Tol Proudfoot is huge, outsized, in the tradition of the mythic. The three-hundred-pound farmer, personally imposing and unkempt, is also the most graceful...
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The Fat Man in History, and other stories

By: Carey, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Random House : January 1980

Seller ID: 131832

ISBN-13: 9780394510729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Daddy: Stories

By: Cline, Emma

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : June 2021

Seller ID: 194898

ISBN-13: 9780812988048

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Blow-Up: And Other Stories

By: Cortazar, Julio

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Pantheon Books : March 1985

Seller ID: 186854

ISBN-13: 9780394728810

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here--including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name--shows Julio Cort zar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
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Arranged Marriage: Stories

By: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor : May 1996

Seller ID: 186396

ISBN-13: 9780385483506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her luminous, exquisitely crafted prose (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage, her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author. For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with ...
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Short Mean Fiction

By: Dunlap, William

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Nautilus : March 2016

Seller ID: 154306

ISBN-13: 9781936946709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Short Short Stories

By: Eggers, Dave.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS. : January 2005

Seller ID: 184818

ISBN-13: 9780141023083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Faraway World: Stories

By: Engel, Patricia

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster : January 2023

Seller ID: 191225

ISBN-13: 9781982159528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

By: Evans, Danielle

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books : September 2011

Seller ID: 194845

ISBN-13: 9781594485367

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mixed-race and African-American teenagers, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story Virgins was published in The Paris Review in late 2007, it announced the arrival of a major new American short story writer. Written when she was only twenty-three, Evans's story of two black, blue-collar fifteen-year-old girls' flirtation with adulthood for one night was startling in its pitch-perfect examination of race, class, and the shifting terrain of ado...
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Collected Stories

By: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Price: $8.50

Publisher: HarpPeren : January 1900

Seller ID: 188934

ISBN-13: 9780060913069

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
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China Grove Premier Issue Fall 2013

By: Gilchrist, Ellen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: China Grove Press

Seller ID: 46014

ISBN-13: 2370000109576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)

By: Gilchrist, Ellen

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books : September 1985

Seller ID: 2771

ISBN-13: 9780316313070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The "funny, wise, and wonderful" (USA Today) book of short stories that won the National Book Award and established Ellen Gilchrist as a leading writer of the American South. In her second collection, Ellen Gilchrist creates an unforgettable group of Southern women, enchanted and enchanting, who cavort through life, in and out of bars, marriages, and divorces, through the world of art and culture, drug busts, lovers' arms, and even earthquakes, in an attempt to find, if not happiness, at least some satisfaction. Throughout these stories, one hears echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, ...
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Ford County: Stories

By: Grisham, John

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Dell : August 2010

Seller ID: 4616

ISBN-13: 9780440246213

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Number 1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inez's youngest son, Raymond--on death row. A hard-drinking, low-grossing divorce lawyer fed up with his wife, his life, and the law plans a drastic escape after an unexpected phone call. A quiet, unassuming data co...
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Dog on the Cross: Stories

By: Gwyn, Aaron

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books : January 2004

Seller ID: 186802

ISBN-13: 9781565124127

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A man miraculously survives a fall from the eighth floor of a drilling rig but is ever after plagued by an unwillingness to live. A preacher loses his ability to speak in tongues and begins to fake it. A young man is intent on suppressing his sinful love for his best friend even though he can think of nothing else. A teenage boy struggles with the temptation of a young girl. A grandmother will stop at nothing to make her grandson famous. These are some of the good citizens of Perser, Oklahoma. And in Aaron Gwyn's debut collection, the people of Perser are unpredictable and unforgettable as the...
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Category: Short Stories