(0)Richard Russo
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Ray is a self-obsessed realtor who must confront his own mortality, yet doesn't seem especially interested in winning the battle. A surprising revelation about his father, and his realization of an unlikely friendship, however, lead him to believe he just might like to stick around.
22) High and dry
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This short memoir, originally published in Granta, is Richard Russo's paean to the heyday of his hometown, Gloversville, New York.
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Polish
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Mohawk to prowincjonalne miasteczko w stanie Nowy Jork, jedno z tych, o których się mawia, że leżą po złej stronie drogi. Ludziom nie żyje się tu łatwo, a ich niewłaściwie umiejscowione ambicje, dawne miłości i tajone nienawiści tworzą więzy silniejsze niekiedy od nich samych. Mimo to mieszkańcy Mohawk budzą naszą sympatię - potrafią być pełni humoru, beztroscy i po prostu bezinteresownie dobrzy i serdeczni. Smutki przeplatają...
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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.
28) The ice harvest
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It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town...
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"While the title novella of Dubus's Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection's opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”-the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom-is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love. Dubus's prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story “Waiting”:...
31) Twilight
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"Harry Ross [is] a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups"--Container.
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Six writers recount end-of-life moments that cover a wide spectrum of human experience, from the man who smashed every dish in his house to the musician who treated on dying woman to the bouncy Beach Boys tune "Barbara Ann" and another to recordings of birdsong at midnight.
33) Two
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A collection of captivating and thought-provoking photographs by award-winning photographer Melissa Ann Pinney that contemplate the essence of duality in our relationships and in the world that surrounds us. Pinney, whose work is in the permanent collections of dozens of American museums, including the Metropolitan, MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Getty, aims her lens at pairs--mostly, but not always human--that display or imply elusive...
34) Brush with fate
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Chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Framed by the present day narrative of a teacher who has the inside track on the number of lives profoundly altered by the elusive painting. The teacher's tale interconnects individual stories of tragedy, romance, success, failure and even the Holocaust.
36) Winesburg, Ohio
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Profiles the people of a small midwestern town in the early 1900s, revealing the consequences of human misunderstanding.
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The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. As James evolves into Jennifer...
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Nobodys's fool is an affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York. Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life. Fat man & little boy is an adventure story about the "Manhattan project and the effort to build the atomic bomb during WWII.