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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
Homeland (Faber Stories) by Barbara Kingsolver
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Chero ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Mostly Hero (Faber Stories) by Anna Burns
13.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before she ...Show more
Mrs Fox (Faber Stories) by Sarah Hall
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.' In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he ...Show more
Shanti (Faber Stories) by Vikram Chandra
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return? It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot miss ...Show more
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more
Terrific Mother (Faber Stories) by Lorrie Moore
9.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is A ...Show more
The Cheater's Guide to Love (Faber Stories) by Junot Diaz
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more. In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Díaz has created an irresistibly erratic pro ...Show more
The Forester's Daughter: Faber Stories by Claire Keegan
10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it. Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victo ...Show more
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