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Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

by Maya Sonenberg

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women’s family lives.What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, attempt to answer this question, heading straight for the messiness of domestic relationships and the constraints society places on women as they navigate their obligations. Daughters desert their rheumy-eyed elders in dusty museums, steal a mother’s favorite teacup, or consider throwing their dead parents’ nostalgia-riddled belongings out the window. Mothers conclude that they love one child more than their others. Fathers puzzle over a wife’s inability to balance family and career or accuse a partner of blaming their child for her own misdeeds. Women mourn the children they decided not to have and fret over the legacy they’ll leave the children they do have. But sometimes the generations reconcile or siblings manage to rescue each other. Love tears these people apart, but it mends them too.The emotions expressed in these stories are combustible, both fraught and nuanced, uncontrollable and common, but above all often ignored or hushed because we’re not supposed to be bored by our children or annoyed with our aged parents, even as we love them. The careful shapes of these stories adapted from fairy tales, verse, letters, or newspaper announcements, the surprise of their wordplay, and the blaze of their lyrical sentences allow them to dig into and contain all those messy emotions at the same time. In these works, constraint creates both understanding and fire.
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Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

by Maya Sonenberg

17,28€ + 10% CARD

 In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women’s family lives.What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, attempt to answer this question, heading straight for the messiness of domestic relationships and the constraints society places on women as they navigate their obligations. Daughters desert their rheumy-eyed elders in dusty museums, steal a mother’s favorite teacup, or consider throwing their dead parents’ nostalgia-riddled belongings out the window. Mothers conclude that they love one child more than their others. Fathers puzzle over a wife’s inability to balance family and career or accuse a partner of blaming their child for her own misdeeds. Women mourn the children they decided not to have and fret over the legacy they’ll leave the children they do have. But sometimes the generations reconcile or siblings manage to rescue each other. Love tears these people apart, but it mends them too.The emotions expressed in these stories are combustible, both fraught and nuanced, uncontrollable and common, but above all often ignored or hushed because we’re not supposed to be bored by our children or annoyed with our aged parents, even as we love them. The careful shapes of these stories adapted from fairy tales, verse, letters, or newspaper announcements, the surprise of their wordplay, and the blaze of their lyrical sentences allow them to dig into and contain all those messy emotions at the same time. In these works, constraint creates both understanding and fire.
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Common Person And Other Stories

by R. M. Kinder

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 These prizewinning stories champion the everyday person who tries to do his or her best in demanding and even demeaning situations.The stories in A Common Person and Other Stories, R. M. Kinder’s third short-story collection and the winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, expose the disruption in our modern life and the ever-present threat of violence, and, most importantly, they capture the real heroism of everyday people. The characters in these stories, most set deep in the middle of America, seem to invite trouble through their concern for others: a neighbor’s mistreated dog, a boy standing up to a bully, a woman who faces cancer and the loss of love. Kinder’s characters struggle with conflicts common to us all—to treat humans and animals with compassion, to open minds and hearts to diversity, all while balancing the welfare of the individual and the larger community. The characters aren’t always loveable, but they have their moments of grace—they accept responsibility and take stands. These stories, by turns humorous, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers of ordinary life as their characters perform acts of defiance, determination, and connection. The memorable characters in A Common Person and Other Stories are, like us, doing the best they can, and that is often remarkable and admirable. Considered closely, Kinder shows us, no person is common.
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A Common Person And Other Stories

by R. M. Kinder

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 These prizewinning stories champion the everyday person who tries to do his or her best in demanding and even demeaning situations.The stories in A Common Person and Other Stories, R. M. Kinder’s third short-story collection and the winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, expose the disruption in our modern life and the ever-present threat of violence, and, most importantly, they capture the real heroism of everyday people. The characters in these stories, most set deep in the middle of America, seem to invite trouble through their concern for others: a neighbor’s mistreated dog, a boy standing up to a bully, a woman who faces cancer and the loss of love. Kinder’s characters struggle with conflicts common to us all—to treat humans and animals with compassion, to open minds and hearts to diversity, all while balancing the welfare of the individual and the larger community. The characters aren’t always loveable, but they have their moments of grace—they accept responsibility and take stands. These stories, by turns humorous, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers of ordinary life as their characters perform acts of defiance, determination, and connection. The memorable characters in A Common Person and Other Stories are, like us, doing the best they can, and that is often remarkable and admirable. Considered closely, Kinder shows us, no person is common.
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Down Along The Piney - Ozarks Stories

by John Mort

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country.
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God, The Moon, And Other Megafauna

by Kellie Wells

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 Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world?s main stage. Here you will find a teacup-sized aerialist who tries to ingest the world's considerable suffering; a lonely god growing ever lonelier as the Afterlife swells with monkeys and other improbable occupants; a father fluent in the language of the Dead who has difficulty communicating with his living son; and Death himself, a moony adolescent with a tender heart and a lack of ambition. God-haunted and apocalyptic, comic and formally inventive, these stories give lyrical voice to the indomitability of the everyday underdog, and they will continue to resonate long after the last word has been read.
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What I Found Out About Her - Stories Of Dreaming Americans

by Peter Lasalle

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle''s reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life for many—an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer''s chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others—can often take on something much larger than that, almost the texture of a haunting dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism in language, this is intense, thoroughly moving fiction that probes the contemporary American psyche, portraying it in all its frequently painful sadness and also its brave and unflagging hope.
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God, The Moon, And Other Megafauna

by Kellie Wells

18,24€ + 10% CARD

 Kellie Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world's main stage.
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Incurables

by Mark Brazaitis

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 The Incurables explores the mental landscape of a small Ohio town, from the horrors of mental illness to the complexities of romantic and familial love.
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What I Found Out About Her - Stories Of Dreaming Americans

by Peter Lasalle

18,24€ + 10% CARD

 What I Found Out About Her explores how everyday life for many can often provide a window into the contemporary American psyche.
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The Incurables

by Mark Brazaitis

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 The Incurables explores the mental landscape of a small Ohio town, from the horrors of mental illness to the complexities of romantic and familial love.
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Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

by Maya Sonenberg

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Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

by Maya Sonenberg

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A Common Person And Other Stories

by R. M. Kinder

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Simone Weil For The Twenty-First Century

by Eric O. Springsted

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Regret - A Theology

by Paul J. Griffiths

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A Common Person And Other Stories

by R. M. Kinder

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Acid - Winner Of The Richard Sullivan Prize In Short Fiction

by Edward Falco

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 This collection of short stories is the second from Edward Falco. It takes its name from the view of one of the characters - "The world is like a mask that acid burns away." Falco aims to unmask the difficult truths that engage us at the deepest levels of our being.
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Down Along The Piney - Ozarks Stories

by John Mort

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 Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country.
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Down Along The Piney - Ozarks Stories

by John Mort

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 Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country.
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God, The Moon, And Other Megafauna

by Kellie Wells

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 Kellie Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world's main stage.
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In Envy Country

by Joan Frank

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 Frank's second story collection explores the uncertainties and triumphs of love and marriage in a variety of settings of contemporary American life.
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Solitude And Other Stories

by Arturo Vivante

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 This collection represents Arturo Vivante's quest to use writing to uncover hidden truths. Although not explicitly autobiographical, many of these stories do have an autobiographical tone. Vivante's stories often stem from the observation of a bright or meaningful moment and always centre on exploring the ideas and emotions of his characters.
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What I Found Out About Her - Stories Of Dreaming Americans

by Peter Lasalle

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 What I Found Out About Her explores how everyday life for many can often provide a window into the contemporary American psyche.
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