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Carver, Raymond. Cheever, John. Henry, O. James, Henry Lardner, Ring Malamud, Bernard Updike, John.Henry, O.
Summary: "Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter--better known as O. Henry--was one of the world's great storytellers. A master of cunning plots and a gifted humorist, he is best known today for his beloved tale "The Gift of the Magi." But O. Henry's palette of moods and methods was as expansive as his exuberant imagination. This Library of America volume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENJames, Henry
Contents: Professor Fargo -- Eugene Pickering -- Benvolio -- Crawford's consistency -- The ghostly rental -- Four meetings -- Rose-Agathe -- Daisy Miller: a study -- Longstaff's marriage -- An international episode -- The pension beaurepas -- The diary of a man of fifty -- A bundle of letters -- The point of view -- The siege of London -- The impressions of a cousin -- Lady Barberina -- Pandora -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMLardner, Ring
Summary: At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARMalamud, Bernard
Summary: Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing the depths of an impoverished urban world. His early, naturalistic style evolved into an inventive, often surreal idiom that blurs reality and fantasy. His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALCheever, John.
Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEMalamud, Bernard
Summary: Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALCarver, Raymond.
Contents: Will you please be quiet, please? -- Fat -- Neighbors -- The idea -- They're not your husband -- Are you a doctor? -- The father -- Nobody said anything -- Sixty acres -- What's in Alaska? -- Night school -- Collectors -- What do you do in San Francisco? -- The student's wife -- Put yourself in my shoes -- Jerry and Molly and Sam -- Why, Honey? -- The ducks -- How about this? -- Bicycles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARUpdike, John.
Contents: Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- The kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- The lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDUpdike, John.
Contents: Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDSummary: "In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the "baboon patriarchy"--Ursula K. Le Guin's words--that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023