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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64342-5 (0-679-64342-7)
Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The Purloined Letter
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving... Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64342-5 (0-679-64342-7)
Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The Purloined Letter
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving... Read more >
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Knockemstiff
Written by Donald Ray Pollock
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2830-4 (0-7679-2830-X)
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters... Read more >
Written by Donald Ray Pollock
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2830-4 (0-7679-2830-X)
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters... Read more >
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The Theory of Light and Matter
Written by Andrew Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47517-6 (0-307-47517-4)
These ten stories take us across the country—from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut—and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The Theory of Light and Matter is a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak, and emotional complexity—the work of... Read more >
Written by Andrew Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47517-6 (0-307-47517-4)
These ten stories take us across the country—from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut—and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The Theory of Light and Matter is a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak, and emotional complexity—the work of... Read more >
Disappearing Ingenue
Written by Melissa Pritchard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72189-9 (0-385-72189-7)
This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous as Anne Frank. As a teenager, her sudden devotion to Catholicism... Read more >
Written by Melissa Pritchard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72189-9 (0-385-72189-7)
This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous as Anne Frank. As a teenager, her sudden devotion to Catholicism... Read more >
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The Kissing List
Stories
Written by Stephanie Reents
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95183-0 (0-307-95183-9)
Composed of twelve stories connected by a recurring cast of characters, The Kissing List centers on young women–Frances, Deirdre, Maureen, Sylvie, and Laurie–whose lives intersect and overlap, first during a collegiate year abroad at Oxford, and then later as they all move to New York on the cusp of adulthood. Stephanie... Read more >
Stories
Written by Stephanie Reents
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95183-0 (0-307-95183-9)
Composed of twelve stories connected by a recurring cast of characters, The Kissing List centers on young women–Frances, Deirdre, Maureen, Sylvie, and Laurie–whose lives intersect and overlap, first during a collegiate year abroad at Oxford, and then later as they all move to New York on the cusp of adulthood. Stephanie... Read more >
What Salmon Know
Written by Elwood Reid
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49122-8 (0-385-49122-0)
Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his exceptional story collection, What Salmon Know.
Reid's characters are tough men living in a world... Read more >
Written by Elwood Reid
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49122-8 (0-385-49122-0)
Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his exceptional story collection, What Salmon Know.
Reid's characters are tough men living in a world... Read more >
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Fierce Pajamas
An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-76127-0 (0-375-76127-6)
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker... Read more >
An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-76127-0 (0-375-76127-6)
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker... Read more >
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Charity
Written by Mark Richard
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42570-4 (0-385-42570-8)
With Charity, the author of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award-winning short story collection The Ice at the Bottom of the World and the novel Fishboy, reaffirms his distinction as poet laureate of the orphaned poor, the broken, the deceived, and the unrelieved. Compared to Faulkner for his language and to Flannery... Read more >
Written by Mark Richard
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42570-4 (0-385-42570-8)
With Charity, the author of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award-winning short story collection The Ice at the Bottom of the World and the novel Fishboy, reaffirms his distinction as poet laureate of the orphaned poor, the broken, the deceived, and the unrelieved. Compared to Faulkner for his language and to Flannery... Read more >
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The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Stories
Written by Mark Richard
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-41544-6 (0-385-41544-3)
In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PENErnest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. Read more >
Stories
Written by Mark Richard
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-41544-6 (0-385-41544-3)
In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PENErnest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. Read more >
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Kick in the Head
Stories
Written by Steven Rinehart
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49854-8 (0-385-49854-3)
The stories in this collection establish Steven Rinehart as a master of observation with an uncanny ability plumb to the psyche of that most perplexing beast, the American male, and to create infuriatingly real characters who find themselves in hilariously scary situations.
A man who's finally enjoying his first sex-only relationship destroys... Read more >
Stories
Written by Steven Rinehart
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49854-8 (0-385-49854-3)
The stories in this collection establish Steven Rinehart as a master of observation with an uncanny ability plumb to the psyche of that most perplexing beast, the American male, and to create infuriatingly real characters who find themselves in hilariously scary situations.
A man who's finally enjoying his first sex-only relationship destroys... Read more >
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Ladies and Gentlemen
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45491-1 (0-307-45491-6)
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45491-1 (0-307-45491-6)
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
Ladies and Gentlemen
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 28, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27071-9 (0-307-27071-8)
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 28, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27071-9 (0-307-27071-8)
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Written by Karen Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27667-4 (0-307-27667-8)
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a... Read more >
Written by Karen Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27667-4 (0-307-27667-8)
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a... Read more >
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories
Written by Karen Russell
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95723-8 (0-307-95723-3)
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.
A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A community... Read more >
Stories
Written by Karen Russell
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95723-8 (0-307-95723-3)
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.
A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A community... Read more >
The Whore's Child
Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72601-9 (0-375-72601-2)
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >
Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72601-9 (0-375-72601-2)
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >
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Dusk and Other Stories
Written by James Salter
Introduction by Philip Gourevitch
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64362-3 (0-679-64362-1)
James Salter is an author with an impassioned following among contemporary readers, writers, and critics, and Dusk and Other Stories is among his signal achievements. First published nearly a quarter-century ago, and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most... Read more >
Written by James Salter
Introduction by Philip Gourevitch
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64362-3 (0-679-64362-1)
James Salter is an author with an impassioned following among contemporary readers, writers, and critics, and Dusk and Other Stories is among his signal achievements. First published nearly a quarter-century ago, and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most... Read more >
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Last Night
Written by James Salter
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7841-7 (1-4000-7841-5)
From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion—by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating.
In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A... Read more >
Written by James Salter
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7841-7 (1-4000-7841-5)
From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion—by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating.
In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A... Read more >
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Store of the Worlds
The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Written by Robert Sheckley
Edited by Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-494-4 (1-59017-494-1)
Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism... Read more >
The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Written by Robert Sheckley
Edited by Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-494-4 (1-59017-494-1)
Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism... Read more >
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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: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27760-2 (0-307-27760-7)
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: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27760-2 (0-307-27760-7)
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 >
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eBook.
Love and Hydrogen
New and Selected Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3349-2 (1-4000-3349-7)
“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: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3349-2 (1-4000-3349-7)
“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 >
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eBook.
You Think That's Bad
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74214-8 (0-307-74214-8)
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre... Read more >
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74214-8 (0-307-74214-8)
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre... Read more >
You Think That's Bad
Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59482-2 (0-307-59482-3)
Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating.
A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn’t resist... Read more >
Stories
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59482-2 (0-307-59482-3)
Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating.
A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn’t resist... Read more >
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Cruising Paradise
Tales
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74217-3 (0-679-74217-4)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood. Read more >
Tales
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74217-3 (0-679-74217-4)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood. Read more >
Day out of Days
Stories
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27782-4 (0-307-27782-8)
From one of our most acclaimed writers: a collection of tales set mainly in the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is... Read more >
Stories
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27782-4 (0-307-27782-8)
From one of our most acclaimed writers: a collection of tales set mainly in the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Day out of Days
Stories
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26540-1 (0-307-26540-4)
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
Stories
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26540-1 (0-307-26540-4)
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
