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A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J Gaines Publisher Comments A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters--a bereaved father stalking his son's killer; a woman crying alone by her television late at... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Publisher Comments In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories (Vintage Contemporaries Original) by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments The seven stories collected here–including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Fields award-winning film In the Bedroom–showcase legendary writer Andre Dubuss sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power. A... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro From Powells.com Laura Miller from Salon.com got it right when she described the stories in Alice Munro's tenth collection: "They're like compressed novels, three-course meals rather than the unsatisfying canapés most short stories resemble." Our finest contemporary... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments Written between 1977 and 1990, universally acclaimed when they appeared in Godine hardcover, and exploring subjects close to home and close to the bone, these twenty-two diverse essays reveal the spiritual strength and shrewdly lyrical prose for which... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair Macleod Publisher Comments The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, He has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book-besotted patriarch releases his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov and Richard Ford Publisher Comments Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford — an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces —... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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