Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story

7 best books like Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (The Paris Review): A Month in the Country, Lucky Jim, Stag's Leap: Poems, Tinkers, Great Short Works of Herman Melville, Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, Seeing

A Month in the Country

Author	J.L. Carr
ISBN	0940322471

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside...

Lucky Jim

Author	Kingsley Amis
ISBN	0140186301

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university...

Stag's Leap: Poems

Author	Sharon Olds
ISBN	0375712259

Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...

Tinkers

Author	Paul Harding
ISBN	1934137197

An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer’s time winds down, his memories intertwine...

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Author	Herman Melville
ISBN	0060586540

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...

Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print

Author	Lawrence Block
ISBN	0898792088

Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel is a book about writing by the legendary Lawrence Block.

Lawrence Block sent me this in an email a couple weeks ago, asking me if I was interested in reviewing his upcoming book about writing. Once I changed into pants that weren't as soaked in my urine,...

Seeing

Author	José Saramago
ISBN	0156032732

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had...