The New York Stories of Henry James
10 best books like The New York Stories of Henry James (Henry James): Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, The House in Paris, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, The Emigrants, The Last September, Taking Care, All Around Atlantis, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes, Fools, Eleven
| Author | Danielle Evans |
| ISBN | 1594487693 |
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385721250 |
One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and construction, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated work.
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house...
| 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 | W.G. Sebald |
| ISBN | 0099448882 |
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
Written with...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385720149 |
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 0394729129 |
Joy Williams beloved dog turned on her. She had to put him down. I used to have a doberman named Sanchez a la Mancha. My brother rescued him from a dire situation. Sanchez was understandably crazy. A lot of other people's pets have passed into my company over the years and that's what happened there. I had...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0671024620 |
Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with the dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. In 'The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, ' a messenger arrives to conduct...
| Author | Joan Silber |
| ISBN | 1555975305 |
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F....
"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,...
From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange unspoken urges, whose cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of Highsmith's previous novels.
Contains:
-The Snail-Watcher
-The Birds Poised to Fly
-The...
| Author | Ryan Harty |
| ISBN | 0877458693 |
The vast, unsettling landscape of the American Southwest is as much a character in Ryan Harty's debut collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, as the men and women who inhabit its award-winning stories. In eight vivid tales of real life in the west, Harty reminds us that life's greatest challenge...
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 0860915921 |
Hitchcock is placed on the analyst’s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, as an exemplar of ‘postmodern’ defamiliarization. Starting...
My friend read a collection of this author's short stories, and it was her reaction that got me looking for one. The price was right for this one: 99¢ on Kindle. There's probably an automatic way to find the page count; my estimate is 28 pages.
I am going to say something on the meaning of the title....
