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How It Ended: New and Collected Stories

10 best books like How It Ended: New and Collected Stories (Jay McInerney): The Dog of the Marriage: Stories, Dark Roots, Throw Like a Girl, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, A Good Fall, The First Person and Other Stories, Back in the World, Honeymoon: And Other Stories, The Brutal Language of Love: Stories, Heavy Water and Other Stories

The Dog of the Marriage: Stories
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0743264517
Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cindy Sherman or the brushstrokes of Robert Motherwell....
Dark Roots
AuthorCate Kennedy
ISBN0802170455
Devastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story.

Following her American debut in The New Yorker, Australian...
Throw Like a Girl
AuthorJean Thompson
ISBN1416541829
A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood,...
Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
AuthorStuart McLean
ISBN0140299149
The Vinyl Café Unplugged is the third book in Stuart McLean's Vinyl Café series, and like the one before it, Home from the Vinyl Café, it won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. This collection contains 14 delightful stories, many first broadcast on CBC Radio, about an idiosyncratic family of four...
A Good Fall
AuthorHa Jin
ISBN0307378683
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
 
With the...
The First Person and Other Stories
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241144264
Oh my God, I haven’t written a review in here for so long that I’ve almost forgotten how to go about it. But I’ve just read this collection of short stories by Ali Smith that I absolutely must enthuse briefly about!

It is my first encounter with Ms. Smith, and I rushed out and bought another...
Back in the World
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0679767967
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...
Honeymoon: And Other Stories
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0375708006
The characters in Kevin Canty’s new collection are people we all know. People who are perhaps ourselves, searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or at least, for a moment, right. Here are couples like Vincent and Laurie, who after beginning an ill-timed relationship,...
The Brutal Language of Love: Stories
AuthorAlicia Erian
ISBN0375760334
Alicia Erian, whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Zoetrope, and Nerve, casts aside traditional notions of right and wrong and conjures up situations that are at once familiar and unsettling. Her characters—flawed, brave, disarming, affectionate—inhabit the not-so-very-wide space...
Heavy Water and Other Stories
AuthorMartin Amis
"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journal

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while...
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
AuthorRobert Coover
ISBN0671617966

What kind of play is this? Who took the light away? And why is everybody laughing?

I'm in awe at the power of Richard Coover not only to capture in words the magic of an eminently visual medium, but also at his dismantling and reassembling the sacred monsters of the silver screen that have become...
Tabloid Dreams
AuthorRobert Olen Butler
ISBN0805055894
Robert Olen Butler's last short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, was a keen, piercing book told largely in the voice of Vietnamese immigrants to America. To say that his new collection is a departure is an understatement: Butler has taken actual headlines from the more outrageous...
Pretty Monsters: Stories
AuthorKelly Link
Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers...
Enchanted Again
AuthorNancy Madore
ISBN0373605218
Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection—this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.Meet...
The Maples Stories
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0307271765
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.

In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,”...
Osprey Island
AuthorThisbe Nissen
ISBN0385720629
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to...
Spoiled
AuthorCaitlin Macy
ISBN1400061997
BONUS: This edition contains a Spoiled discussion guide.

A young woman does a good deed for her nanny, only to have it go horribly wrong. A newly married woman struggles to gain the upper hand with her self-assured cleaning woman. An anxious woman desperate for an authentic experience makes...
In the Land of Men
AuthorAntonya Nelson
ISBN0684846861
In this powerful collection of stories, Antonya Nelson portrays women whose lives have slipped loose from their moorings and the men who can't really anchor them. Here we meet Roxanne, the tomboy who consistently chooses men who are not her equal; the loving Marta, whose husband keeps a separate house...
The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN0812974778
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson

Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution

In...
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories
AuthorYasutaka Tsutsui
ISBN0307377261
This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.

In “The Dabba...
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories
AuthorDavy Rothbart
ISBN0743263057
In The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs. Full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor, Rothbart's tales blaze their way from midwestern farm fields to state prisons and...
The Point and Other Stories
AuthorCharles D'Ambrosio
ISBN0316171255
I purchased this book after reading one of the short stories ("Her Real Name") in a fiction anthology. The story was so incredible that I wanted to read everything that I could find by the same author. (I ordered his other book, The Dead Fish Museum, at the same time. I have already read it and reviewed it.)

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