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The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike and Katrina Kenison From Powells.com Since its debut volume 85 years ago, publication of The Best American Short Stories has been a regular literary event, providing an annual showcase for America's greatest established writers and consistently discovering and introducing the best... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Raymond Carver Publisher Comments By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imagination of thousands of readers... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Publisher Comments With this masterful new book — his first in nearly four years — Richard Ford reaffirms the judgment of The New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic." Only a storyteller of Ford's remarkable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 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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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates Publisher Comments The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 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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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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The Whore's Child: And Other Stories by Richard Russo Publisher Comments To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellas (Vintage Contemporaries Original) by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments In these three stories — two of which form the basis of the award-winning film We Don't Live Here Anymore — literary master Andre Dubus traces the lives of two couples who married too young, and who are intricately entwined by love and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever Staff Pick "I finished ['The Swimmer'] remarkably satisfied, but piqued, and randomly began to consume the stories one after another. This collection contains pieces spanning more than thirty years of Cheever's career. He writes old-fashioned stories with dateless... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Adultery and Other Choices by Andre Dubus Publisher Comments Adultery and Other Choices is our second collection of Andre Dubus' work. In it, we follow the fortunes, fantasies and modest adventures of Paul Clement, a sensitive, small-town Louisiana boy, as he grows to manhood. Manhood, in his case, means a stint... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments 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 immigrant willing to bet... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cage Keeper: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Finding a Girl in America by Andre Dubus List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Worthless Evening by Andre Dubus List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike Publisher Comments “He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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