Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
10 best books like Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (Edith Pearlman): Paris Stories, Volt, This Is Not Your City, Death Is Not an Option, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Selected Stories, The New Yorker Stories, Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories, The Sojourn, Fools
| Author | Mavis Gallant |
| ISBN | 1590170229 |
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, “radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade.” Michael Ondaatje’s new selection of Gallant’s work gathers some of the most memorable...
| Author | Alan Heathcock |
| ISBN | 1555975771 |
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice
One man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him...
| Author | Caitlin Horrocks |
| ISBN | 1932511911 |
Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in...
| Author | Suzanne Rivecca |
| ISBN | 0393072568 |
Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...
| Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
| ISBN | 0385335776 |
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0670022063 |
A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" ("The New Yorker").
Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed...
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| ISBN | 1439168741 |
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name...
| Author | Gina Berriault |
| ISBN | 1887178384 |
"Things come and go. I figure they go more often than they come. Not much came my way but I lost more than I had. If you see what I mean." {from "The Overcoat"}
"How could a man change like that? His entire body aware of her, even the soles of his feet against her feet, and then be that person no more? And...
| Author | Andrew Krivak |
| ISBN | 1934137340 |
The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s...
"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Beautiful, intricate and wise."—New York Times Book Review
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris,...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0312429894 |
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
| Author | Lydia Peelle |
| ISBN | 0061724734 |
With its quick pace, modern society leaves scant time for us to pause and take a deep breath of fresh air, to watch the clouds move across the sky, or to appreciate the earth and its cycles of birth and death. Once out of the fray -- far from our cubicles and the relentless rat race -- and back into nature, we...
| Author | Steven Millhauser |
| ISBN | 0307595900 |
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase...
| Author | Lara Vapnyar |
| ISBN | 1400033896 |
There Are Jews in My House is one of the most striking debuts of recent years. Tracing the lives and aspirations of Russians living in Moscow and Brooklyn, these poignant, sad and funny stories create a luminous new literary world.
In the title story, set during the Second World War, Galina,...
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 0679776494 |
Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.
A...
| Author | Stanley Elkin |
| ISBN | 1564782921 |
An ambitious, digressive, and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millses, George Mills is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusade, there has always been a George Mills, who despite his best efforts is unable to improve his...
| Author | Marisa Silver |
| ISBN | 1416590293 |
Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.
Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a...
| Author | Seth Fried |
| ISBN | 1593764162 |
Channeling Steven Millhauser by way of George Saunders, The Great Frustration is a sparkling debut, equal parts fable and wry satire. Seth Fried balances the dark—a town besieged, a yearly massacre, the harem of a pathological king—with moments of sweet optimism—researchers unexpectedly...
| Author | Ben Stroud |
| ISBN | 1555976468 |
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, an imaginative debut that ranges from Havana to Berlin.
Ancient cities and fallen empires come to life in this masterful collection. In the Byzantine court, a noble with a crippled hand is called upon to ensure that a holy man poses no threat to the throne....
| Author | Joan Wickersham |
| ISBN | 0307958884 |
“Joan Wickersham’s brilliant The News From Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation
American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...
The Middleman and Other Stories
| Author | Bharati Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 0802136508 |
Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life...
| Author | Donald Antrim |
| ISBN | 0374280932 |
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers,...
