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Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and two previous collections of stories. He teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Unleashed
Poems by Writers' Dogs
Edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.95
Filled with canine inspiration, sixty-four of today's most respected literary talents have looked at the world from their dogs' points of view and discovered a remarkable range of thought and feeling. This is an excellent book for poets and writers looking to expand their uses of voice and narrative.
Contributors:
Edward Albee
Jennifer Allen
Danny... Read more >
Poems by Writers' Dogs
Edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.95
Filled with canine inspiration, sixty-four of today's most respected literary talents have looked at the world from their dogs' points of view and discovered a remarkable range of thought and feeling. This is an excellent book for poets and writers looking to expand their uses of voice and narrative.
Contributors:
Edward Albee
Jennifer Allen
Danny... Read more >
Unleashed
Poems by Writers' Dogs
Edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
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Poems by Writers' Dogs
Edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
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Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with... Read more >
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with... Read more >
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $23.00
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with... Read more >
Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $23.00
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with... Read more >
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Love and Hydrogen
New and Selected Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.95
“These are some of my favorite short stories of the past decade. Reading them is like encountering our national literature in microcosm: multiform and polyrhythmic, violent and fanciful, erudite and hard-boiled, built on twin foundations of nostalgia for the never-was, and of that millennial American optimism that is indistinguishable from despair.”... Read more >
New and Selected Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.95
“These are some of my favorite short stories of the past decade. Reading them is like encountering our national literature in microcosm: multiform and polyrhythmic, violent and fanciful, erudite and hard-boiled, built on twin foundations of nostalgia for the never-was, and of that millennial American optimism that is indistinguishable from despair.”... Read more >
Love and Hydrogen
New and Selected Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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New and Selected Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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Project X
A Novel
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $14.00
In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can’t quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $14.00
In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can’t quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him... Read more >
Project X
A Novel
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
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A Novel
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
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