Widow: Stories
10 best books like Widow: Stories (Michelle Latiolais): Child of God, Exhalation: Stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Battleborn, China Mountain Zhang, Fear: A Novel of World War I, Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories, The London Train, Rapture, Nothing
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679728740 |
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic...
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From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0151365040 |
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in...
| Author | Claire Vaye Watkins |
| ISBN | 1594488258 |
Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0312860986 |
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an...
| Author | Gabriel Chevallier |
| ISBN | 1590177169 |
1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable,...
| Author | Barry Hannah |
| ISBN | 0802119689 |
Once again, foiled by the inaccuracy and wholesale brutality of a five-tiered rating system. Barry Hannah, based on this collection, got slightly worse - or at least less concerned about the vagaries of plot and the finely tuned sentence - but the first two collections are simply astounding. If I weren't...
| Author | Tessa Hadley |
| ISBN | 0062011839 |
Two lives, stretched between two cities, converge in a chance meeting with immediate and far-reaching consequences in this compelling, sophisticated tale from acclaimed New Yorker writer Tessa Hadley, author of Accidents in the Home and The Master Bedroom. As father struggles to reestablish a...
| Author | Susan Minot |
| ISBN | 0007141769 |
A powerful, sensuous new novel from the critically acclaimed author of 'Evening'. 'Mesmerising.' Vogue 'The bedspread was sloughing off the foot of the bed, the white sheets were as flat as paper. This is not what she'd pictured when she asked him over for lunch today. It really wasn't.' Taking one single...
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 1564782603 |
Years after having an affair that almost ruined their respective marriages, Jane Weatherby and John Pomfret are reunited when their children decide to get married despite questions regarding their possible kinship and the fact that they have almost no money to their name. Afraid that Mary Pomfret...
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
| Author | Stephanie Wittels Wachs |
| ISBN | 1492664103 |
The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.
One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..
Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work...
