Written in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Anton Chekhov's only attempt at the linked collection. 'A Man in a Shell' is a grotesque Gogolian comedy; 'Gooseberries,' a narrator's impassioned response; and 'About...
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Author:Chekhov, AntonSummary: - Author:Chekhov, Anton PavlovichSummary:
Elusive and subtle, spare and unadorned, the stories in this selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical. The book includes well-known pieces such as 'The Lady with the Little Dog,' as well as less familiar work like 'Gusev...
- Author:Falkner, JenniferSummary:
“It is the part that is missing that I am drawn to, that I try to pin down. My gaze is always divided by what is here and what is no longer here. That, for me, is where the deepest pleasure lies, where the sweet overcomes the bitter." A...
- Author:Oaten, JimSummary:
Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya. Slipping around the edges of Alzheimer's disease, the Gulf War, and the eternity of CNN. Set somewhere between here and the heat-death of...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm down Government Road from Crocus,...
- Author:Hollingshead, GregSummary:
A new collection of short fiction from the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Greg Hollingshead. Act Normal is a collection of sharp, new comic stories about sex, art, and the daily...
- Author:Mayers, AdamSummary:
Small things can often mean a great deal. For the past five years readers of the Toronto Star’s website have been telling each other that, as they shared their stories in a feature called "Acts of Kindness." The common thread...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Author:Collins, Carolyn Strom, Woster, Christy, Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories. This collection brings together rare pieces...
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After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century is the first anthology to represent the generation of millennial writers now making their mark. Diverse, sophisticated, and ambitious in scope, the short stories in this ground-breaking...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with...
- Author:Lee, Kai-FuSummary:
"This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights."-Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award; chief AI scientist, Facebook -- AI Superpowers...
- Author:Parrish, RhondaSummary:
Air is essential for life. The need for air is so important that breathing is instinctual. Yet Air is unstable and capricious, blowing gently as a summer breeze in one moment and blasting with the fury of a tornado in the next. No...
- Author:Burnham, ClintSummary:
Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who’s got the hots for his mom… Hunh? That’s right. It’s all here in this...
- Author:Young, PatriciaSummary:
These fourteen stories by acclaimed poet Patricia Young explore the small victories and lurching disappointments, losses and betrayals of the everyday with a language and style that is tautly poetic and beautifully unsentimental. A...
- Author:Patriarca, GiannaSummary:
All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability...
- Author:Miller, K.D.Summary:
In a linked collection that presents the secret small tragedies of an Anglican congregation struggling to survive, All Saints delves into the life of Simon, the Reverend, and the lives of his parishioners: Miss Alice Vipond, a refined...
- Author:Davis, G. Haron, Montgomery, Cam, White, AdrianneSummary:
This is a compilation of thirteen love stories for every star sign in the cosmos straight from the hearts of thirteen multicultural YA authors. A haunted Aquarius finds love behind the veil, an ambitious Aries will do anything to stay...
- Author:Macleod, AlisonSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards for Fiction. Longlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short Story. Hovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into...
- Author:Dubiel, CariSummary:
We are all lonely in different ways. In this short story collection of crime fiction, people who long for something are confronted with death. Some mysteries are solved and others aren't, but that's the way life is.
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