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Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work. A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this...

Six interlinked stories from a #1 New York Times best-selling author, illuminating the fragile-yet-resilient ties that bind family, friends, and lovers. A master of American realism and of the short story, Andre Dubus III here explores what poet Ellen Bass calls “this visceral bloody union...

In this brilliant sliding doors debut, a Chinese American couple's love story is told and retold Elizabeth and Simon are newly married. Elizabeth is waiting for her green card and spends the winter in Chicago staining her fingers with pomegranate seeds, dreaming of home. Elizabeth and Simon...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Abschnitte: Vorwort, Die Seereise, Roscoe, Das Weib, Rip van Winkle, Englische Schriftsteller über Amerika, Landleben in England, Das gebrochene Herz, Die Kunst des Büchermachens, Ein königlicher Dichter, Die Dorfkirche, Die Witwe und ihr Sohn, Die Schenke zum Eberkopfe in Eastcheap. Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Erzählungen: Unordnung und frühes Leid, Gefallen, Wunderkind, Vision, Luischen, Der Tod, Der Wille zum Glück, Gladius Dei, Ein Glück, Anekdote, Die Hungernden, Wie Jappe und Do Escobar sich prügelten, Das Eisenbahnunglück, Tobias Mindernickel, Gerächt. In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht.

A exquisitely wrought, deeply personal collection of short stories from a remarkable new voice from Sudan A young girl grows jealous of her mother’s lemon tree, which may be more sentient than she knows. A college student confronts tragedies past and present when police attack a university...

The hip-hop culture on the south side of Chicago links these short stories that are otherwise very different from each other in subject and approach. Stark scenes of gang violence, drug use, and prison life are contrasted with light and humorous stories, and the grittiness of urban life is...

The story that inspired the bestselling classic A Separate Peace and two other coming-of-age tales exploring themes of disillusionment, self-discovery, and friendship, originally published in the 1950s. John Knowles’s A Separate Peace is an American classic; a timeless portrayal of adolescence...

First published in 1991, Pangs of Love remains a landmark exploration of intimacy and culture, from a pioneer of contemporary American literature. In his unforgettable debut Pangs of Love, David Wong Louie follows Chinese American men and women who are caught between cultural inheritance and...

From the breakout award-winning author of Malas, a series of linked stories following the members of a big Mexican American family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love. From the author of Malas comes a linked short story collection that centers the...

From nine-time Grammy Award–winning artist Anderson .Paak comes a kinky, surreal, and hilariously unhinged collection of stories about a fabled sex shop on Sunset Boulevard. Peeps on Sunset is the last vestige for true freaks in Los Angeles. Rocco, the store’s reluctant heir, is yanked out...

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A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that delve into the depths of survival, obsession, and the dark side of human nature. Box of Bones Jim, an American expat teaching English in the Philippines, wakes up after a night out to find himself trapped inside a pitch-black...

From Jade Song, the master of weird girl lit, comes a provocative and surreal collection of twelve short stories, each inspired by a Chinese zodiac animal. In this stunning collection, Jade Song masterfully blends realism with the surreal, crafting tales that explore identity, belonging, and the...

Cementing her mastery across genres, Catherine Lacey returns with a new collection of visceral and absurdist short fiction. Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, Catherine Lacey’s second collection of short fiction, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality, and horror of...

Spanning nearly a century and moving backward in time, A Splendid Indian is a dynamic and inventive collection of linked stories set in the vividly alive world of the fictional Broke Hat rez. Late one August, Samson, a laconic sixteen-year-old, is spending the summer at the general store, intent...

“A brilliant, unexpected writer . . . Hannah Gold is giving the NYC creative class a treatment both brutal and tender in Why Trees, her genre-bending, almost irritatingly funny first collection of short stories . . . [as] if Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection had a baby with Mary Gaitskill’s...

A new translation of Poor Folk, the debut novella that first brought the author of Crime and Punishment fame at the age of twenty-five, along with his other early stories, all showcasing the concern for human dignity that animated his later work. The short novel Poor Folk portrays the passionate...

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