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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (TM)) 42 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Grand American tales of the nineteen hundreds
+ Short Story Group
+ A good effort
+ Very Well Done
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories 13 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1993
Great introduction to a great writer...
+ American master of characterization
+ A world of his own
+ One of the most exquisite collections of short stories you'll find
+ Edge of my seat
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Houghton Mifflin, 1990
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The Pugilist at Rest: Stories34 reviews
Thom Jones
Back Bay Books, 1994
Darn fine
+ jones is more than flavor of month -- he's the real thing
+ Must read Vietnam literature
+ altered consciousness
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories59 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1989
A Storytelling Poet (for the everyman)
+ Phota stories
+ Paeans to a lived life
+ "Who knows why we do what we do?"
+ Nice introduction to contemporary writing
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Jesus' son94 reviews
Denis Johnson
Christian Bourgois, 1996
Children of loneness
+ I read the first couple stories...
+ Aimless Days of the Addicted
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the ...
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Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)16 reviews
Donald Barthelme, David Gates
Penguin Classics, 2005
Brilliant but not for Everyone
+ A Collection of the Highest Order
+ Me and Mrs. Mandible
+ Difficult but rewarding
+ The Balloon Man
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus 14 reviews
Andre Dubus
David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1988
Worth reading again and again . . .
+ A greater writer.
+ Morality, Religion, and Family
+ Human and humane
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The Vague Terrain
William LaPage
Guerrilla Ink Press Llc, 2008
A ghetto known as le terrain vague existed on the outskirts of Paris during the early 20th century, an area comprised of mostly transients and exiles- hustlers, gypsies, circus performers, and other various outcasts. Similarly, The Vague Terrain profiles the lives of men and women who live on the fringes of society through a series of vignettes and a reoccurring narrative focused on Vyvian, a ...
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A Relative Stranger: Stories7 reviews
Charles Baxter
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Alienation in the Upper Midwest
+ Tumultuous Fiction
+ A star rising from the midwest
+ Comtemporary Topics for Comtemporary People
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Birds of America: Stories84 reviews
Lorrie Moore
Picador, 1999
A Christmas Appreciation of Lorrie Moore
+ For anyone with a child interned at the hospital...
+ Discovering Lorrie Moore
+ What wonderful stories!
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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories50 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1994
Surreal landscapes
+ Great stories!
+ Murakami's stories are simply extraordinary.
+ Seventeen original stories
+ Odd but lovable
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories 35 reviews
Miranda July
Scribner, 2008
Amazing
+ Not bad
This was an amazing collection of stories. "Someting that needs nothing", "making love in 2003", "birthmark" and the last story were absolutely amazing. I couldn't put it down. Awkward and thought-provoking, Miranda July is my new idol. Just amazing.
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The Complete Stories60 reviews
Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
The Devil's In The Details
+ Flannery O'Connor, one twisted sister
+ American Sophocles
+ Dark, very dark
+ Roman-Catholic-Southern-Gothic
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All of Us: The Collected Poems15 reviews
Raymond Carver
Knopf, 1998
Minimal is a Good Thing
+ a book of poetry to carry with you
+ True life as true literature
+ Transcendent Beauty
+ all of us - the collected poems by raymond carver
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Haunted : A Novel of Stories183 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2005
Disturbing, but Rings True
+ Fantastic book...
+ Desperately Grand... Until the End
And the fact some of these stories do ring true might be the most disturbing thing of all.
While reading, I was alternately disgusted, horrified, and amused. I was most uncomfortable when Palahniuk's characters expressed thoughts I could identify with...but that is where this writer's ...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories36 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1989
Wonderful Carver
+ Beautiful and Melancholic
+ A Walk on the Dark Side We Should All Take
+ good book
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories25 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2005
Guilt & Redemption
+ Enjoyable read
+ Stranger than Chuck...
+ Some stories are slow, but overall worth it.
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The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories11 reviews
Mark Richard
Anchor, 1991
Master of the Southern Short Story
+ STORIES AT THE TOP
+ A Rave Review
+ Lean and vivid
+ Short stories with collateral effects
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?14 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 2003
One of the books I love
+ A Clean, Well-lit, Declarative Sentence
+ A mixed Bag
+ assortment of harsh, condensed, short stories
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