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A native New Zealander's debut captures the perplexities and wonder of French-Canadian magic realism at its best--full of down-under merriment.

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Tragicomic stories about the lost souls of the boomer generation--old friends facing old demons as they grapple with middle age.

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"Characters from Greek myth appear alongside figures from the plays of Shakespeare. The world takes on the fluidness of dreams. Young men labor and die while poor poets sing of the money they never make. In these experimental poems and stories, Dario captures the strange encounters made possible for the artist of modern life. Azul... is a book by Ruben Dario."--

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First published in Russian by StoSvet Press in 2010.

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Imaginary countries. Real countries. The best and worst of both in short, cutting, refreshing stories.

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Dark, sharp, and pensive, Rebecca Rosenblums The Big Dream is to our generation what In Our Time was to Hemingways.

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A lyrical and deeply satisfying fiction debut that extols and celebrates the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area."

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Boy Oh Boy is a humorous exploration of loneliness and longing, as well as a confrontation of society's expectations about love.

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What are boys thinking That's what the heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know.

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A collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of Brazil: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as from Brazil's two dominant cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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27 brilliant short story writers, including NY Times bestseller Sean Williams and up-and-coming star Katherine Arguile, unpack the idea of beauty and discover that there is no light without darkness. Cracking the core of all things lovely to reveal their innards, these writers ask: What is beauty anyway The answers may surprise you.

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From the strange erotics of household appliances to the shock of a child's first encounter with death, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.

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(Paperback, First published in 1902 by Duckworth and Co.)

Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories which explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: loneliness, isolation and danger. The stories, often depicting female suffering, are grimly realistic in contrast to the masculine romantic notions of the outback as represented by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

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This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. More than just standard monster stories, the tales in But You Scared Me the Most reveal much more about about human nature and will appeal to a wide range of fans of smart, funny short fiction.

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If CanLit is a steamy boudoir, then Cape Breton is a pair of torn yellow fishnets glowing under the bed.

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With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.