Dancing After Hours
10 best books like Dancing After Hours (Andre Dubus): Cathedral, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, The Outlaw Album, The Hawk is Dying, Back in the World, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories, Faithless: Tales of Transgression, Park City: New and Selected Stories
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679723692 |
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger,...
| Author | Tobias Wolff |
| ISBN | 0880014970 |
Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff, are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious...
| Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
| ISBN | 1451643357 |
A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from...
| Author | Daniel Woodrell |
| ISBN | 0316057568 |
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.
Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation - both material and psychological...
| Author | Harry Crews |
| ISBN | 0394483057 |
The Hawk is Dying is Crews' sixth published novel, and similar to Vonnegut's five works before Slaughterhouse Five, this book feels like the culmination of everything he was circling in those first five works. Make no mistake, this is Crew's Hamlet - it is a striking, brutal and important work of...
| Author | Tobias Wolff |
| ISBN | 0679767967 |
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0393328244 |
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic,...
| Author | Mark Richard |
| ISBN | 0385415443 |
If you read this in the wrong head-space, it's like listening to a drunk person tell a story while you're sober. The monologue (as it becomes) can run on-n-on and before you know it you're like "wait, what?" This happened to me a couple of times while reading this, where I was distracted by some sort of whatever,...
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060933577 |
An emotional and somewhat depraved read, I've had an exceptionally difficult time putting my feelings about this anthology into words. I've done my best to try and come back to this review all articulate and concise. But...I...just can't!!
There are a lot of stories in this collection and...
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| ISBN | 0679781331 |
For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0618380442 |
The Hermit’s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. “The Distance” casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man’s visit to Monticello. “Eating” begins...
| Author | Ethan Canin |
| ISBN | 0618004149 |
EMPEROR OF THE AIR "explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporary short fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether his characters are struggling to save trees in their yards, their marriages, or themselves,...
