The Stories Of Tobias Wolff
10 best books like The Stories Of Tobias Wolff (Tobias Wolff): Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened, Rock Springs, Shiloh and Other Stories, The Chronicles of Clovis, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Nightmares of an Ether Drinker, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Amateurs, Cold Snap, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened
| Author | Chris Turney |
| ISBN | 1403985995 |
Understanding how we pinpoint the past is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future. Now, for the first time, journalist and geologist Chris Turney explains to the non-specialist exactly how archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists "tell the time". Each...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099448971 |
Richard Ford with Raymond Carver
This collection of ten short stories published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series is Richard Ford at his best. Certainly, Ford would go on to write a string of first-rate novels, but these short stories are some of the finest American...
| Author | Bobbie Ann Mason |
| ISBN | 0375758437 |
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky...
Saki (pseudonym of H. H. Munro), English author, is best known for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre short stories; they are collected in Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts, and other volumes. Contents of The Chronicles of Clovis include: Esme, The...
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
| Author | Harold Brodkey |
| ISBN | 0679724311 |
Harold Brodkey (1930 – 1996) is a major twentieth-century American writer of highly polished, highly poetic fiction first published in The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines over a thirty years span, 1960s through the 1990s. Published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series,...
| Author | Jean Lorrain |
| ISBN | 1872621651 |
Contents:
-Introduction by Brian Stableford
-Early Stories: The Egregore/ Funeral Oration/ The Locked Room/ Magic Lantern/ The Glass of Blood/ Beyond/ Glaucous Eyes
-Sensations: One of Them/An Undesirable Residence/ A Troubled Night/ A Posthumous Protest/ An Uncanny Crime/...
| Author | Alasdair Gray |
| ISBN | 0140069259 |
With his first collection of short fiction, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Scottish artist and author Alasdair Gray perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements which has since characterised his work.
The book’s dust jacket advertises the cocktail of surreal, macabre and mock-historical...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0374103798 |
322. Amateurs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post,...
| Author | Thom Jones |
| ISBN | 0571179452 |
Thom Jones's second collection of stories takes its readers into an edgy, overadrenalized world of desire, mania and rage. Following his extraordinary debut in The Pugilist at Rest, Thom Jones returned with a collection of unparalleled fire and vision. Jones takes us from down-and-out in America...
| Author | Steven Millhauser |
| ISBN | 0753808218 |
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...
| Author | David Malouf |
| ISBN | 0375724494 |
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father...
| Author | Charles D'Ambrosio |
| ISBN | 0316171255 |
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.)
This...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0060956224 |
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0486414116 |
Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly influenced by...
| 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,...
| Author | Christopher Coake |
| ISBN | 0141019255 |
'I would like to claim that I discovered Christopher Coake but you can't really discover writers like this: the quality of the work is so blindingly obvious he was never going to labour in obscurity for any length of time ... We're In Trouble is, for the most part, a book about death - quite often, about how...
| Author | Richard Lange |
| ISBN | 0316017361 |
I am a white man. I am almost certainly under-employed. I once had success with women, but I have now fallen into loneliness. I often fantasize about sleeping with women I will never approach. If I don't do this, I sleep with prostitutes. In any case, I have women problems. My friends aren't really...
| Author | Rebecca Curtis |
| ISBN | 0061173096 |
In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters—young women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventure—wait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray...
| Author | Brady Udall |
| ISBN | 0393335542 |
“Funny, unpredictable, and abounding with strange beauty . . . a fierce new voice of the American West.”—Outside
Exploding with an unsettling exuberance, Brady Udall’s stories traverse a geography of lost love, fragmented lives, and satisfying revenge. From the night a six-foot-three...
Twenty stories ranging over every imaginable human emotion and situation, Tales of Love and Loss is a treat for all lovers of great writing. Knut Hamsun published only three collections of short stories during his lifetime and abandoned the form entirely after 1906. Most of these stories are translated...
| Author | Rosa Liksom |
| ISBN | 9513531082 |
Yhden yön pysäkki kirjoitettiin: ”Rosa Liksomin henkilöt ovat niitä nuoria, joita väistelemme vaivautuneina kaduilla ja jotka siirretään koulussa toivottomina tapauksina tarkkailuluokalle muita häiritsemästä.” Tiina Nyrhinen, Satakunnan kansa. ”Melkein tervehdin...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
| Author | Henry Dumas |
| ISBN | 1566891493 |
Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley,...
| Author | Darryl Ponicsan |
| ISBN | 0976399717 |
Unlike the other branches of the armed services, the navy draws its police force from the ranks, as temporary duty. The risk is that men on Shore Patrol might bring their humanity to the task. This accounts for the underlying tension in "The Last Detail", which takes place during the height of the Vietnam...
Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance
| Author | Rosalind Porter |
| ISBN | 1416569731 |
"Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me,...
The World's Shortest Stories
| Author | Steve Moss |
| ISBN | 0762403004 |
All short stories in this book are contest winners. The main rule of the contest was each submission had to be fifty-five words or less and tell a story. The ones selected for publication cover a wide range of themes including murder, love, terror and suspense. Above all, these stories are entertaining,...
