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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, this National Book Award—winning story collection is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature.
Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story, and her National Book Award—winning Collected Stories confirmed her as a master of short fiction.
The forty-one...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, The Holiday Season and its companion piece, Love at the End of the Year are tender ruminations on the nature of family, the power of love, and a particularly complicated time of year. In The Holiday Season, Jeff, Ted, and Frank Posey are still trying to figure out how to be a family three years after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. As the year winds to a close and the holidays threaten...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Author William Gay is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize. In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land.
6) Antarctica
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Compassionate, witty, and unsettling, Antarctica is the debut collection of one of Ireland's most exciting and versatile new talents. Claire Keegan, winner of several prestigious awards including the William Trevor Prize, writes stories that have a razor-sharp narrative style and unembellished tone, and move from the cruel, hard life of rural Ireland to the hot landscape of the southern United States. From the title story about a married woman who...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Author
Series
Library of America volume 102
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Author
Publisher
Orloff Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Description
Eleven stories on soldiers by an ex-soldier. In Vancouver, a soldier who returns from Vietnam finds the family house expropriated and turns to violence, while Guns is on the death in Venice, California, of a soldier who enjoyed the Vietnam War. A debut in fiction.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1971
Description
"The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two short story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime -- Everything that Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find."--Back cover.
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Description
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, 1991
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home between dowdy housewife Evelyn Couch and spry octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode leads to an unexpected friendship.
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
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