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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline – $295

23 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In this debut collection of seven dystopian fantasies, some of which have appeared in the New Yorker and Harper’s, America in the near future is a toxic wasteland overrun by vicious thugs and venal opportunists who prey on the weak and misshapen. Saunders’s feverish imagination conjures up images as horrific as any from a Hieronymus Bosch painting: a field full of braying mules toppled over from bone marrow disease; a tourist attraction featuring pickled stillborn babies; and cows with […]

Categories: Cuentos, Antología • Tags: Cuentos, 1997, Fiction, Short Stories, George Saunders, Riverhead Trade, Saunders

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Store of the Worlds- The Stories of Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books Classics)

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of […]

Categories: Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Humor • Tags: anthology, Antología, Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Dystopia, Farce, farsa, Nyrb, NYRB Classics, Science Fiction, Sheckley, Short Stories, Stories

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The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories - $285

7 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives. Rutherford’s work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of The Best American Short Stories that she edited, and also published in Ploughshares, One Story,and American Short […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, adventures, American, coffin, Cuentos, Ecco, Fiction, Literature, peripatetic, Sea, Short Stories, USA

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Robert Walser - Selected Stories - $285

3 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In her preface to Robert Walser’s Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as “a good-humored, sweet Beckett.” The more common comparison is to “a comic Kafka.” Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century’s great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: anthology, Cuentos, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Fiction, Short Stories, walser

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The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

3 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America. Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2000, América, American, Cuentos, David Gates, New York, NYC, Short Stories, Vintage, Wonders

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – $275

27 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer’s New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in […]

Categories: Cuentos, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, amor, Cuentos, Love, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, penguin, Rusia, Russia, Short Stories

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories – $295

23 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie’s classic fantasy novel Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating work of fantasy from the author of Midnight’s Children and The Enchantress of Florence, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. […]

Categories: Children, Cuentos, Fantasía • Tags: Britain, Children, Children's Books, Cuentos, fantasia, Fantasy, haroun, India, Infantil, niños, penguin, Rushdie, Short Stories

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Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories – $425

10 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it was with the story collection Winesburg, Ohio that he found his ideal form, remaking the American short story for the modern era. Hart Crane, one of the first to recognize Anderson’s genius, […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2012, American, Americana, Collected, Library of America, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, Short Stories, Tales, USA

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The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories – $290

10 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In “Center of the Universe,” God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In “Magical Mr. Goat,” a young girl’s imaginary friend yearns to become “more than friends.” In “Unprotected,” an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy’s wallet. The stories in Simon Rich’s new book are bizarre, funny, and yet…relatable. Rich explores love’s many complications-losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it-and turns the ordinary […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, coming of age, Fiction, Love, Pixar, Reagan Arthur, romance, Short Stories, simon rich

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Tenth of December: Stories – $275

25 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, Cuentos, George Saunders, Random House, Short Stories

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Collected Fictions – $285

10 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Gordon Lish, as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname “Captain Fiction”) and then at the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, shaped the work of many of the country’s foremost writers, from Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah to Amy Hempel and Lily Tuck. As a writer himself, Lish’s stripped-down, brutally spare style earns accolades in increasing numbers. His oeuvre is coming to be recognized as among the most significant of the period that spans the transition between the 20th […]

Categories: Cuentos, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2010, American, contemporary, Flash fiction, OR Books, Short Stories

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The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories – $375

8 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in “Pilot, […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, Cuentos, Fiction, Manuel Gonzales, Riverhead, Short Stories

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Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story – $295

8 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of The Paris Review. Over the course of the last half century, the Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of our time. This anthology—the first of its […]

Categories: Antología, Cuentos • Tags: 2012, anthology, Object lessons, Paris Review, Picador, Short Stories

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Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany – $385

8 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America’s most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings–journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play–have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new book in more than […]

Categories: Antología, Cuentos • Tags: 2012, anthology, Charles Portis

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Things We Didn’t See Coming – $285

22 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Michael Williams, in Melbourne’s The Age, wrote of this award-winning, dazzling debut collection, “By turns horrific and beautiful . . . Humanity at its most fractured and desolate . . . Often moving, frequently surprising, even blackly funny . . . Things We Didn’t See Coming is terrific.” This is just one of the many rave reviews that appeared on the Australian publication of these nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian futurein a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar.Richly […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: Apocalyptic, Cataclysmic, Short Stories, Steven Amsterda

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Category Archives: Cuentos

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline – $295

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories - $285

Robert Walser - Selected Stories - $285

The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – $275

Haroun and the Sea of Stories – $295

Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories – $425

The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories – $290

Tenth of December: Stories – $275

Collected Fictions – $285

The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories – $375

Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story – $295

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany – $385

Things We Didn’t See Coming – $285

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