Joanna Scott
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and "greatly gifted and highly original artist" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (New York Times).
Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across...
Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across...
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A "delicately eccentric" collection of stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Binocular Vision (Publishers Weekly).
"Put [Pearlman's] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories...
"Put [Pearlman's] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories...
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First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with its punishing extremes of
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