The New York Stories
10 best books like The New York Stories (Elizabeth Hardwick): Lost Children Archive, Ducks, Newburyport, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, Kudos, The Summer Book, The Pure and the Impure, In a Lonely Place, The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, Ride a Cockhorse, Victorine
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A...
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0062864688 |
6 Hours and 55 Minutes
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.
At times raucously hilarious,...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 1473524334 |
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0954221710 |
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer...
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1558614559 |
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1590172485 |
A New York Review Books Original
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable...
I'm convinced that there is a discrete outpost within the southern climes of my stomach— approximately the size of an average avocado pit—where my loathing resides. In this theory, my loathing, in its neutral state, is a congealed knob of greenish wax-like substance which radiates a faint, mostly...
| Author | Maude Hutchins |
| ISBN | 1590172701 |
Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello...
The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since...
‘Where do I find Crime?’
‘Crime doesn’t have its own section,’ said the librarian without looking up, ‘it’s all under fiction.’
In this seductive coming-of-age debut, Jess Walker, a young and uninitiated first year student, falls in love with two great story-tellers....
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 8532508731 |
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.
A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
