Elizabeth Strout
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author
Before there was Olive...
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author
Before there was Olive...
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“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive...
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"The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post)...
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The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year.
The collection includes essays by the three guest jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction.
7) Ay, William
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Lucy Barton es escritora, pero su exmarido, William, sigue siendo un hombre difícil de leer. William, confiesa, siempre ha sido un misterio para mí. Otro misterio es por qué los dos se han mantenido conectados después de todos estos años. simplemente son Entonces, Lucy se sorprende y no se sorprende cuando William le pide que lo acompañe en un viaje para investigar un secreto familiar descubierto recientemente, uno de esos secretos que reorganizan...
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"Vuelve la ic̤nica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la p̌rdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedar̀n ellos dos, compąeros despǔs de tantos ąos, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequęa casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldr̀n transformados....
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En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente...
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En una habitación de hospital en pleno centro de Manhattan, delante del iluminado edificio Chrysler, cuyo perfil se recorta al otro lado de la ventana, dos mujeres hablan sin descanso durante cinco días y cinco noches. Hace muchos años que no se ven, pero el flujo de su conversación parece capaz de detener el tiempo y silenciar el ruido ensordecedor de todo lo que no se dice. En esa habitación de hospital, durante cinco días y cinco noches,...
12) Mam na imię Lucy
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Doskonała powieść jednej z najważniejszych pisarek ostatnich lat, nagrodzonej Pulitzerem autorki powieści Olive Kitteridge, przeniesionej na ekran w serialu HBO. Powieść zachwycająco prosta i powściągliwa... Rzeczy, o których trochę wiedzieliśmy, ale nie potrafiliśmy ich wyrazić, zostały nam wreszcie wytłumaczone. Czujemy ulgę, czujemy się zrozumiani. Myślimy sobie wtedy: „To właśnie to. Tak wygląda życie٣. - National Public...
13) To, co możliwe
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Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of the author's 2016 novel My name is...
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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. This work features...