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In this short story a man relates his inner-most thoughts and reflections as he suffers a heart attack on the street and is then brought back to life ... More

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A collection of new writing. This edition features a fable-like account of the extraordinary things discovered about death by Tracy Kidder during the ... More

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A young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers..."The Joy of Funerals" is a riveting collection that explores the lives of ... More

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Begun as a "Lives" column in "The New York Times Magazine, " this book is a riveting look into the disturbing lives of nine young women, each willing ... More

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Death, in most cases, provides writers with a convenient stopping point, a period after which readers can assume what they wish and the writer need ... More

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This is a collection of ten stories by one of Canada's foremost fiction writers, designed to be a bedside book for people living with death. In his ... More

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The author of "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom" presents a "tough-minded, original, an fully felt" (Sheila Ballantyne) collection of stories that ... More

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In 1992, George S.J. Anderson's thirty-nine year old wife, Lois, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Seasons in Cancer is an extraordinary chronicle of ... More

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Three Deaths is acclaimed writer Josip Novakovich's first exclusively Canadian edition of his writing. This elegant edition works as a triptych ... More

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The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space gathers stories about coping with grief, trying to love people who have died, and--more broadly--leaving old ... More

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A collection of short stories, a novella and a poem by the author of "Maestro", "Honk If You Are Jesus" and "Wish".

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It is 1906. The death of his seventeen-year-old son, Arturo, has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots ... More

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Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master and Man

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A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire ... More

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In each of these 14 stories, Dubus uncovers the mysteries of ordinary life as his characters wrestle with love, faith, and luck--often perseverant, ... More

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Beattie, a master of the short form, delivers a collection of all the storiesshe has published in "The New Yorker."

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Well before his memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army were published to great acclaim, Tobias Wolff had already proven himself one of America ... More

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This collection of eight stories by the award-winning author of "The Good Brother" captures the lives of men shaped by the rough, isolated culture of ... More

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Ozick's latest work of fiction brings together four long stories, including the novella-length "Dictation," that showcase this incomparable writer's ... More

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Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her - until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood. Joyce has settled into ... More

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In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle ... More

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In his dazzling new book of stories, Butler explores America by finding artistic inspiration in an unlikely and fascinating place--the backs of ... More

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