Paradise (Faber Stories) by Edna O'BRIEN
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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
Fairy Tales by Marianne Moore
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, ...Show more
Shanti by Vikram Chandra
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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
Giacomo Joyce by James Joyce
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant ...Show more
Intruders by Adrian Tomine
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work. Is he re-entering his old life or borrowing someone else's? Where is the line he will not cross? Each day is the same: he exists in a state of suspension, ba ...Show more
Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.' A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women's lives into shiver-inducing relief. In each of these twinned tales, a mother and daughter meet again, and a ...Show more
My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Faber 90 Stories
I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Pa ...Show more
The Cheater's Guide to Love: Faber Stories by Junot Diaz
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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
Homeland: Faber Stories by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: Faber 90 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
Mostly Hero : Faber Stories by Anna Burns
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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