Author: J. M. Snyder
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: novellas, four, scarred
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2002-06-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 059523111X
ISBN-13: 9780595231119
Four new novellas by the author of Operation Starseed: In a future where pleasure is bought in virtual reality parlors, one man creates the perfect lover. Spun from binary code, everything he could want in a boy except real ¡ or is he? Dane is destined for greatness, his boyfriend Krish just knows it. But first he needs to break into the local music scene, and Krish doesn¡¯t trust the singer who¡¯s offered to help. Thom¡¯s through with men after his last lover cheated on him, but the new boy who buys the house next door hopes he¡¯ll reconsider. The only proble
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novellas, three, lantern, red, raise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060596333
ISBN-13: 9780060596330
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father’s suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novellas, insects, amp, angels
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1994-03-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679751343
ISBN-13: 9780679751342
The author of Possession returns to the territory of her bestselling novel in two breathtaking fictions that explore the social and psychic landscape of Victorian England. Set in a proper country house with undercurrents of brutality and at a seance where historical figures yearn for one another, these works remind us of Byatt’s powers.
Author: David Grossman
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novellas, knows
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-07-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312425058
ISBN-13: 9780312425050
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman’s novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest. In Frenzy, a reserved and respectable man draws his sister-in-law into a paranoid conviction---that his wife is having an affair. In the title novella, a successful but embittered novelist delivers a merciless account of her dying mother’s love affair with a much younger teenage boy. "Suffused with delirious tension and characters more substantial than in most no
Author: Josh Weil
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: novellas, valley, new
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0802118917
ISBN-13: 9780802118912
The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons. Set in the hardscrabble hill country between West Virginia and Virginia, The New Valley is populated by characters striving to forge new lives in the absence of those they have loved. Told in three varied and distinct voices—from a soft-spoken beef farmer struggling to hold himself together after his dad’s suicide; to a health-obsessed
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: novellas, three, suite, elephanta
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2007-09-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0618943323
ISBN-13: 9780618943326
A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.We also meet Indian characters as singular as they
Author: Maryann Reid
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novellas, five, sister, single, sex
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0312300727
ISBN-13: 9780312300722
The African American answer to Sex and the City---a collection of hip, sexy, funny novellas about successful black women in their twenties, on the dating scene, making all the wrong moves . . . A fine ambitious sister on the rise to stardom, junior correspondent to NBC News, Farah’s, has life on a string. And she’s looking for a quick hook-up. But this sister’s about to learn what happens when you take the fast track to love . . .Alaya fled the projects, determined not to be anybody’s baby-mama, got her degree, and opened her own accounting firm. Everything is perfec
