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Mortality
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Auteur:Gould, JohnSommaire:The End of Me is a collection of 56 very short stories about death, written by Giller Prize finalist John Gould. These "sudden stories" or "postcard fiction" or "flash fiction" explore the experience of...
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Auteur:Keneally, ThomasSommaire:Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler's List, returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-...
- Auteur:Gaglia, LouSommaire:
Poor Advice as a collection reveals Lou Gaglia’s humor, imagination, and range: A woman is obsessed with pumping gas at one particular pump in one particular gas station. A six year old and his father kill over two hundred flies at a...
- Auteur:Kearley, WadeSommaire:
In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern poetic forms, these poems find in the...
- Auteur:Rushdie, SalmanSommaire:
Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island...
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Auteur:Werb, DanSommaire:For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana...
- Auteur:Sedaris, DavidSommaire:
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris' cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with...
