 | Pafko at the Wall: A Novella by Don DeLillo
Buy used from: $4.02 October 3, 1951: 'the shot heard 'round the world; this novella is adapted from the opening pages of DeLillo's epic 'Underworld,' and revised from the version that appeared in Harper's in Oct. 1992.
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 | Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: $0.01 Classic 19th century novella with themes of innocence and experience; American and European sensibilities; manners and mores; see also 'The Turn of the Screw.'
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 | The Novellas of John O'Hara (Modern Library) by John O'Hara
Buy used from: $17.95 John O'Hara (1905-70) was born in Pottsville, PA; he was an acute commentator on contemporary American morals and manners.
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 | The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas by Sena Jeter Naslund
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Southern writer creates almost perfect prose in collection of eight stories and novellas that explores the human condition in the context of contemporary American society.
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 | Old New York by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 1924 (set in 1840s-70s); themes of class society, mores, and manners from insider's POV: 'The False Dawn'; 'The Old Maid'; 'The Spark'; 'New Year's Day'; also 'Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas.'
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 | Sex and the Single Sister: Five Novellas by Maryann Reid
Buy used from: $0.01 hip, sexy, sassy set of debut novellas from African-American sistas' POV--light entertaining read for fans of 'Four Blondes' and 'Sex in the City'--PB will be out soon.
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 | The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn by Martha Gellhorn
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.49 fourteen previously published novellas from war journalist who was also the 'third Mrs. Ernest Hemingway': 'Mrs. Maddison,' 'Two by Two,' 'Pretty Tales for Tired People.'
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 | In the Snow Forest: Three Novellas by Roy Parvin
Buy used from: $0.01 settings in the Trinity Alps (California), Montana, and Wyoming; includes: 'Betty Hutton,' 'Menno's Granddaughter,' and title novella.
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 | Arkansas: Three Novellas by David Leavitt
Buy used from: $0.01 includes 'The Term Paper Artist,' 'The Wooden Anniversary,' and 'Saturn Street'; gay fiction.
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 | The Train Now Departing by Martha Grimes
Buy used from: $0.01 thematically linked by longings of lonely middle-aged women for cads; includes title novella and 'When the Mousetrap Closes.'
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 | Cartesian Sonata And Other Novellas by William H. Gass
Buy new: $14.53 / Used from: $0.01 philosophical prose styled through a looking-glass fractally; includes title novella, 'Bed and Breakfast,' 'Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's,' 'The Master of Secret Revenges.'
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 | Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $1.76 gothic, imaginative fables: 'The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne,' 'The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon,' 'Catalogue of the Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash (1810-1846).'
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 | The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus
Buy used from: $0.01 Four novellas (by author of 'Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'); title novella won National Magazine Prize; set in North Carolina.
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 | Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories by Amy Hempel
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.54 Poetic prose in these short pieces and title novella, which is narrated in epistolary form by woman in a mental institution.
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 | Finding a Girl in America: A Novella and Ten Short Stories by Andre Dubus
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Title novella and ten short stories set in New England coastal region; also 'The Times Are Never So Bad': 'Pretty Girl' is the novella; also 'The Last Worthless Evening' and 'Separate Flights.'
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 | And Both Shall Row: A Novella and Stories by Beth Lordan
Buy used from: $1.92 Debut collection of critically acclaimed six short stories and title novella is set in Clayborne, a mythical Midwestern town.
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 | The Lost Boy: A Novella by Thomas Wolfe
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.56 Autobiographical novella features Wolfe's childhood recollection of growing up in North Carolina mountain town at the end of the 19th century.
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 | Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E. L. Doctorow
Buy used from: $0.98 1984 publication of six short stories that are unified by the title novella, in which the narrator emerges as commentator on his own life.
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 | A New and Glorious Life (Short Fiction Series) by Michelle Herman
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $0.88 Title novella, 'Auslander,' and 'Hope Among Men' show exquisite pacing and excellent characterization.
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 | The Free Thinkers by Layle Silbert
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.01 Title novella and 'The Idealists' highlight experiences of Jewish immigrants as they confront freedom, assimilation, and acculturation.
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 | Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas by Jane Smiley
Buy used from: $0.01 choices and consequences in context of domestic life; nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award; see also the title novella in 'The Age of Grief.'
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 | The Clouds in Memphis: Short Stories and Novellas by C. J. Hribal
Buy new: $24.70 / Used from: $0.14 Title novella, and others: 'The Last Great Dream of My Father,' 'And That's the Name of That Tune'; short stories: 'Consent,' 'War Babies'; critically noted author is reminiscent of Cheever & Updike.
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 | The Novellas of Hortense Calisher (Modern Library) by Hortense Calisher
Buy used from: $0.60 Collection of seven novellas, including the previously unpublished 'Women Men Don't Talk About,' demonstrates mastery of the form by American stylist.
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 | A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978 by Andrei Codrescu
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.18 Seven short shorts and four novellas, written in the '70s by Romanian-American author and NPR commentator; influences of French roman nouveau show in hallucinatory, experimental prose.
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 | Tenorman by David Huddle
Buy used from: $0.01 'Tenorman' is exquisite; Huddle's easygoing conversational style creates riffs that linger in the mind.
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