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Short stories
Paperback. Everything We Hoped For is an unusually strong first book, distinguished by an exquisitely crafted surface and barely contained emotional force. A young mother in shocked contemplation of her new baby and young women in rehab and jail feature in mostly short and oblique stories which echo and connect with cumulative power. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864736253
- ISBN
- 9780864736253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.69
€ 23.69
Paperback. Set in places as diverse as Fort Sumner, Taos, Chimayo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Clovis, the fourteen stories in The Tombstone Race explore the surprising connections and disjunctions between rich and poor, urban and rural, old and new, ugly and beautiful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826356277
- ISBN
- 9780826356277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.97
€ 20.99
€ 18.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353344
- ISBN
- 9780826353344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.24
€ 23.99
€ 20.24
Paperback. Set in the author's childhood home, the Rio Puerco Valley southeast of Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico, this collection of fictional short stories are based on his personal experiences or stories he heard about people or events while growing up in his valley. They illustrate the vibrant culture of rural northern New Mexico and its inhabitants. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826345998
- ISBN
- 9780826345998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.55
€ 20.99
€ 19.55
Paperback. A child protagonist points out the flaws in adult society. Each of the drawings by the great surrealist Leonora Carrington that accompany the chapters in 'Lilus Kikus' expresses a subjective, interiorised vision of the child character's contemplations on life. Illustrator(s): Carrington, Leonora. Translator(s): Martinez, Elizabeth Coonrod. Num Pages: 127 pages, 11 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826335821
- ISBN
- 9780826335821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.59
€ 33.59
Paperback. Written in a narrative prose, this is a translated collection of seventeen short stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. Here the art of the short story offers illuminated scenes of the Djiboutian urban and rural landscape, its people, and its history. Translator(s): Garane, Jeanne. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925080
- ISBN
- 9780813925080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.97
€ 26.97
Paperback. An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the "Yellow Wallpaper", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from "Herland", Gilman's feminist Utopia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918761
- ISBN
- 9780813918761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.73
€ 32.73
Paperback. An anthology of 25 short stories from writers in North Carolina, all published within the last 15 years of the 20th century. The stories range widely in setting, character, tone and even form, from short stories to novellas. Editor(s): McFee, Michael. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848951
- ISBN
- 9780807848951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.81
€ 43.81
Paperback. A collection of ghost stories and narration unique to the state of Kansas. The stories are a blend of mystery and menace. The ghosts are shown to be notoriously linked to a specific structure or landscape, whether it be an 18th-century mansion or a bottomless pool. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FKC; FYB; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700609307
- ISBN
- 9780700609307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.73
€ 33.73
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Manic D Press, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916397739
- ISBN
- 9780916397739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.08
€ 15.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. This volume contains ten darkly funny stories by Maura Stanton. Characters include a girl with a clown phobia who falls in love with Joujou the clown; Gertrude Stein playing ping-pong with the GI's in Paris; and a woman who discovers her dead sister has written a bad novel. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025564
- ISBN
- 9780268025564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.80
€ 25.80
Hardcover. This volume contains ten darkly funny stories by Maura Stanton. Characters include a girl with a clown phobia who falls in love with Joujou the clown; Gertrude Stein playing ping-pong with the GI's in Paris; and a woman who discovers her dead sister has written a bad novel. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025557
- ISBN
- 9780268025557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.15
€ 122.15
paperback. Now in paperback for the first time, this collection appears as it was originally published, including the specially commissioned artwork illustrating each story. Series: Pine Street Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Pine Street Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219357
- ISBN
- 9780812219357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.09
€ 31.09
paperback. Though most widely known for the novella "The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. This work includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history. Series: Pine Street Books. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Pine Street Books United States
- Edition
- Später Druck
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218558
- ISBN
- 9780812218558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.64
€ 31.99
€ 26.64
Paperback. This new collection of short stories centres exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors. Along with the new generation of North Carolina writers, stories by such well-known writers as Thomas Wolfe, William Polk, and James Boyd are also included. Editor(s): Walser, Richard. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807879566
- ISBN
- 9780807879566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.74
€ 58.74
Paperback. A collection of short-short stories that reminds us why we read fiction: to laugh, to learn, to feel, to be discomfited and challenged, to be transported, and to make enlightening and enduring connections with the world outside our own skins. Editor(s): Gingher, Marianne. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859773
- ISBN
- 9780807859773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.30
€ 27.99
€ 23.30
Paperback. This collection of mystery short stories showcases some of North Carolina's writing talent from the past and the present - some famous, some less well known. They solve crimes, locate treasures, and uncover deceit in a range of tales that reflects the breadth of the genre. Editor(s): Shaber, Sara R. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856048
- ISBN
- 9780807856048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.88
€ 27.99
€ 24.88
hardcover. Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, this title presents fourteen stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world. Num Pages: 96 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780807831632
- ISBN
- 9780807831632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.96
€ 29.99
€ 24.96
Paperback. Presents the Northwestern story with "The League of the Old Men" as an introduction to these action tales. This volume of stories presents action tales, in which it explores the theme of the bond between man and dog, and the character flaws revealed under the stresses of extreme isolation. Editor(s): Tuska, Jon. Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 9. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803294349
- ISBN
- 9780803294349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.93
€ 17.99
€ 16.93
Paperback. Spins tales of Lakota and Dakota generations, of what the youngest can learn from their elders, if they choose to listen: a boy is embarrassed to accept the gift of a medicine bag from his dying grandfather; a little girl learns about the Lakota seasons. This collection ends with spellbinding ancient Sioux tales about the birth of the universe. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 137.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803293007
- ISBN
- 9780803293007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.17
€ 17.99
€ 16.17
Paperback. Features thirteen short stories representing Mark Harris's distinguished work in this genre from 1946 to 1993. They were undertaken at a time when he was becoming famous as a novelist. He loves and writes about the pleasures of baseball. While baseball is absent from the stories, his appreciation of human variety is not lacking. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803273191
- ISBN
- 9780803273191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.49
€ 18.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. A collection of twenty-eight stories that presents portrayals of the lives of ordinary New Englanders of Freeman's era. It depicts rebellion against oppressive social and private conditions. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 32. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803268944
- ISBN
- 9780803268944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.38
€ 39.38
Paperback. A collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese Americans interned at Wyoming's Heart Mountain. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; FYB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803267541
- ISBN
- 9780803267541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.26
€ 19.99
€ 18.26
Paperback. This remarkable work, in Jordan Stump's superb translation, offers readers a thrilling entry into Bassmann's numinous world Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803239913
- ISBN
- 9780803239913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.15
€ 23.15