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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Short Stories | 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
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Category: Short Stories | 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
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
Mrs Fox (Faber Stories) by Sarah Hall
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Category: International 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
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
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Category: International 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
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Category: International 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 Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
"My only concern," John McGahern once said, "is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply." 'The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's st ...Show more
The Forester's Daughter: Faber Stories by Claire Keegan
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Category: Short Stories | 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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