Assisted Living: Stories

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  A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

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  Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories

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  Airships

  Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration o…

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  Small Rain

  A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.
  
  A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wre…

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  To Have Written a Book

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  Falling Man

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  Native Son

  Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man…

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  The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

  The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
  
  In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tu…

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  The Aleph and Other Stories

  Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight, he takes us inside the minds of an unrepent…

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  On the Calculation of Volume I

  Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd Novembe…

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  Ficciones

  The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse…

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  Greek Lessons

  “Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.”
  
  In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language tea…

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  What I Know So Far: Stories

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  Endgame

  Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our t…

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  The Book of Disappearance

  What if all Palestinians vanished from their homeland overnight?
  
  Alaa, a young Palestinian, is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland…

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  Minor Detail

  Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people …

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  Mother Night

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  Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on tr…

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  Harrow

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  Quartet in Autumn

  This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness.…

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