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Last Resort(2021) CARSON, JANAgatha Christie-obsessed Alma faces her toughest case yet as she tries to help them all find what they've lost. With trademark wit and playfulness, in this stunning linked short-story collection Jan Carson explores complex family dynamics, ageing, immigVezava: Trda18,21 € -
Passages(2021) QUIN, ANN‘A seductive blend of Samuel Beckett, Pauline Réage and pure madness.’ Stewart HomeFrom mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home(2022) HSU, PETEIf I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s gripping and energetic debut, tells the stories of children and young people navigating a world not made for them, where the presence of death and violence is found everywhere: Vegas casinos, birthday paVezava: Mehka18,52 € -
Secrets Never Told(2020) BOLGER, DERMOTIn his first collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, exploring the secrets that bind families together, or tear them apart, creating worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are always truths juVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Collected Stories of Richard Yates(2008) YATES, RICHARDWhether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary peopleVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves(2008) RUSSELL, KARENCharting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics;Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Girl in Hyacinth Blue(2002) VREELAND, SUSANIf you loved GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, you will love this international bestselling story of the girl behind a Vermeer painting.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Second Plane(2009) AMIS, MARTINA collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed(1994) IRVING, JOHNIn a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and nowVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Magic Barrel(2002) MALAMUD, BERNARDA matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of humVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cobra Trap(2006) O'DONNELL, PETER (BOOK REVIEWS)Charting the final adventures of Modesty Blaise, Cobra Trap is a selection of stories from Modesty's life running her criminal empire, the Network, to working for British Intelligence.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Rock Springs(2006) FORD, RICHARDMines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and children.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
People On Privilege Hill(2008) GARDAM, JANE* A new collection that is a masterclass in the art of the short story from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of OLD FILTHVezava: Mehka14,01 €
