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A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes."

Berlin invites her reader into a rich, itinerant life: one of beauty, pain, laughter, drink and surprising moments of grace. In Mexico, Chile and the American southwest, in laundromats, hospitals, motels and bars, she crafts miracles from the everyday with a voice that is irresistible.

One of the most popular and celebrated contemporary authors selects 31 of his favorite pieces--both fiction and nonfiction--including selections from such bestsellers as Desert Solitaire, The Brave Cowboy, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, Down the River, The Journey Home, and more. Includes 11 line drawings.

Short stories.

These 13 short stories by well-known contemporary writers evoke a wide range of women's experiences and feelings. Writers such as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Elizabeth Tallent, and Mavis Gallant survey the rich complexity and frequent contradictions of contemporary life. They focus on weddings, funerals, childbearing, visits by relatives, friendships, and memories. In Susan Minot's story "The Navigator," a young girl tells of her family's struggle against...

This work presents nine stories from the noted American playwright, Tennessee Williams.