National Book Award winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. All of Ha Jins characters struggle in situations that stir their conflicting desires to remain attached to their na...Loe edasi...
I think people have an absolute ear for what is true, Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth—of laughter, joy, and compassion and situations--that makes Keillor such a brilliant and beloved storyteller. Thi...Loe edasi...
Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of todays finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and s...Loe edasi...
Nature is a dominant theme in this rich new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle. The title story, a powerfully original retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France,...Loe edasi...
Tim Wintons characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgott...Loe edasi...
This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex -- a serious condemnation of the mores and...Loe edasi...
Picking up where the suspenseful Payback with Ya Life left off, were plunged back into the hip-hop drama, where the men are hot and dangerous, the women know their shoes from their Choos, and they will stop at nothing to get what they want. In a gam...Loe edasi...
A darkly funny collection of stories about the power of love and the love of power. In the unforgettable opener, The Infamous Bengal Ming, a misunderstood tigers affection for his keeper goes horribly awry. In Demons, a woman tries to...Loe edasi...
Twelve wry, poignant stories of love, hope, and transformation. In Some people must really fall in love, an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward, adult world of office politics and blind dates while harboring feelings for one of h...Loe edasi...
In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection -- and find themse...Loe edasi...
A theft: A 40ish executive of an international publishing group, Clara is the czarina of fashion writing; the breadwinner of her family. Claras powerful facade is vulnerable to the demands of her heart. Two youthful love affairs gone sour had prec...Loe edasi...
Russian author, playwright, and physician Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time, his works having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce. Within this volum...Loe edasi...
A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhovs stories are of...Loe edasi...
After thirteen-year-old Charlie Halls mother dies and his father retreats into the silence of grief, Charlie finds himself drifting lost and alone through the brutal halls of junior high school. But Charlie Hall is not entirely friendless. In the...Loe edasi...
Ivan Ilyich is a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given a thought to the inevitability of his death. One day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tols...Loe edasi...
Mercedes Lackey chronicles the early history of her well-known fantasy world, Valdemar. When one of the magical Companion horses is selected for training as a Herald, thirteen-year-old Magpie discovers unknown talents and beholds the formation of the...Loe edasi...
Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierces 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in...Loe edasi...
Jillian Laurens breathtakingly honest memoir, Some Girls, earned both critical praise and outstanding sales. In Pretty, Lauren delivers on her promise as a “natural storyteller” (Los Angeles Weekly) with an electrifying novel about a broken girl l...Loe edasi...
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna OBrien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who whether in the Irish countryside of London or New York, remind us of our own humanity. A libr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Apr-2011, Multiple-component retail product, Kirjastus: Random House, ISBN-13: 9781617073106)
Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they seem to have nothing in common -- nothing except the most importan...Loe edasi...
