 | Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Dubus is the master. His son is a hack. The story,"Dancing After Hours" is worth the price of the book
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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 The story, "Finding a Girl In America" is the purest piece of prose I have ever encountered. It will live with you for weeks.
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 | Ask the Dust by John Fante
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 | Hunger: A Novel by Knut Hamsun
Buy used from: $4.38 Where the great ones went to remember how to feel
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 | Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.85 Broyard's personal memoir reads like a who's who of the 1960's Village Literary elite
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 | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories by David Foster Wallace
Buy new: $18.71 / Used from: $6.50 The 2 page short story, "Think" is amazing.
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 | Stripper Lessons by John O'Brien
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $2.44 Even Better than Leaving Las Vegas
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
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 | Peter Camenzind: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: $0.01 A classic from one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century
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 | Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino
Buy used from: $3.80 Its power is unmistankable and its design ambitious.
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 | In the Cut by Susanna Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 The book is 1,000 times better than the movie. Moore is a modern master of the word.
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 | Lithium for Medea by Kate Braverman
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $1.87 Cruely, brilliant.
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 | Women by Charles Bukowski
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 | Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Reminds us all what it means to be human, oh so human.
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 | Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
Buy used from: $0.98 The book starts off like a whirlwind and moves at a furious pace.
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 | Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
Buy used from: $5.82 I'm mad I didn't discover him until this year. Ferocious man of Chicago letters.
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 | Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault
Buy new: $11.22 / Used from: $0.01 Powerful and alive
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 | The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $0.99 Refreshingly Original
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 | Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $1.08 See the movie too.
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 | Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $2.00 Intimate
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 | The Dancer Upstairs: A Novel by Nicholas Shakespeare
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 Language that Soars
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 | Piano Stories (The Eridanos Library) by Felisberto Hernandez
Buy used from: $50.00 A rare and powerful collection - beautifully written
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 | The Night In Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.99 The ancient art of a master story teller
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 | Atchley by David Green
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 The last 20 pages of this book are some of the most beautiful language I have ever read.
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $1.48 Simple, succinct and completely captivating
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