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    The Brat Pack meets The Bacchae in this precious, way-too-long, and utterly unsuspenseful town-and-gown murder tale. A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods.
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    Dávila's 12 short stories begin with "Moses and Gaspar," about Señor Kraus, who returns to his dead brother's apartment to collect the dogs he left behind. Moses and Gaspar become a complicated "inheritance from [his] unforgettable brother." ... 2010. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 2004. Categories:
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    The Magazine: Kirkus Reviews Featuring 314 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children's, and YA books; also in this Spring Preview issue: interviews with Grady Hendrix, Imani Perry, Matthew Cordell, Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee; and more
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    Released: Oct. 1, 2010. JANIS JOPLIN: ... SUCH A PRETTY FACE: SHORT STORIES ABOUT BEAUTY edited by Ann Angel. Combining contributions from established veterans and newcomers, this appealing anthology, with its baker's dozen of stories about beauty—a topic often on the minds of youth—offers a broad perspective. ...
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    An anthology of an anthology, packed with some of the best short fiction ever committed to print. Aficionados of the "Getting Things Done" system of time management will appreciate that Best American Short Stories founding editor Edward J. O'Brien was "almost pathologically organized," useful for dealing with the flood of stories he received on conceiving the annual prize volume.
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    The Kirkus Star. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, the Kirkus Star marks books of exceptional merit. The Kirkus Prize. The Kirkus Prize is among the richest literary awards in America, awarding $50,000 in three categories annually.
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    Despite the title, none of the 14 stories megaselling Archer (The Eleventh Commandment, 1998, etc.) exhibits here are abridgements of potential novels; practically all of them are expansions of paragraph-length anecdotes. The tendency to embroider pat morals is clearest from the titles of the nine stories based on actual incidents.
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    "Intricately structured, powerfully emotional, beautifully written: This is as good as short fiction gets," according to our starred review. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (Morrow/HarperCollins, Sept. 17): The stories in this linked collection all deal with rejection, mostly of the sexual and romantic kind. "Tulathimutte is unafraid to ...
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    Seven stories, including a couple of prizewinners, from an exuberantly talented young Thai-American writer. In the poignant title story, a young man accompanies his mother to Kok Lukmak, the last in the chain of Andaman Islands—where the two can behave like "farangs," or foreigners, for once.
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    A rich selection of 28 compact and resonant stories (they're novels in miniature, more often than not) drawn from seven highly praised collections previously published by the Ontario writer. Munro has been called, with good reason, North America's Chekhov. Her rich elaborations of seemingly commonplace lives, in which she invariably locates the imaginative heart of lives her characters wished ...

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