Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2014 - June 2014
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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Long, last, happy: new and selected stories By Hannah, Barry Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death. |
By Moore, Lorrie Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Eight short stories. |
By Munro, Alice Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be. |
By Serber, Natalie Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters includes such tales as a mother and child who turn cooking ingredients into symbolic weapons and a woman who questions her place in the face of teen antics. |
The book of mischief: new and selected stories By Stern, Steve Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Stern manages to be both ebullient and caustic, even within perfectly stitched sentences, throughout his cunning and transporting tales of Jewish life. This vital collection of new and previously published works spans a quarter of a century of Stern's shape-shifting and loving stories of families and enclaves, most notably the Jewish neighborhood in WWI–era Memphis called the Pinch. Here the pragmatic old hands focused on assimilation shun those among them who pursue mystical revelations and run the Neighborhood House, where the greenhorns were taught how to box-step and brush their teeth. Stern's fablelikeaccountsof mismatched marriages, misfit children, gossip, fear, and folly are stoked by sharp-tongued disputations and philosophical humor and stand as the American descendants of Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales. Similarly vivid stories take place in New York City during the high tide of Jewish immigration and in Europe, including one about a boy in a death camp. Stern breathes life into every robustly detailed and emotionally nuanced story, lifting the veil between the earthly and the divine to create a radiant book of mischief and magic. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. |
The name of the nearest river: stories By Taylor, Alex Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Taylor blends all the essential ingredients of classic Southern fiction—beer, fishing, guns, cars, and moral and social restlessness—together in his first collection, 11 stories of revenge, violence, impossible love, and true heartache. His hard-drinking, dogged Kentuckians have little and desire less, yet find themselves losing their dignity to those who seem to possess more. Two surly brothers, late for their aunt's funeral (and without a gift), snag a prize catfish with their bare hands, only to have it stolen by a smug man with a jet ski and a pretty girl. A group of lonesome men, who regularly meet for a cathartic, makeshift demolition derby, lose their bearings when a woman driving her husband's Mustang interrupts them. And a band of vengeful American colonists on a manhunt are betrayed by a silver-tongued Tory while the outlaw hides in a cave. Taylor's voice is sure and raw, truly and comically Southern in the best sense of the word, and these spirited tales are a fine addition to the South's long and celebrated storytelling tradition. Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews. 2011 Eric Hoffer Award in the General Fiction 2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin Award Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”' --Chris Offutt |
Hills like white hills: stories By Wetherell, W. D. Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS "In "The Lucy Coffin," an elderly lawyer finally tells his son the real story of the magical journey he took as a young man and the lovely woman he met whose memory haunts him still; in "Pucker Pie," a summer rock concert in Vermont turns ugly as one family becomes caught up in a night of terror; and in the award-winning tale, "Watching Girls Play," a middle-aged former soccer star, shirking a sales call, happens upon a girls' soccer match that forces him to face some unpleasant truths about the kind of man he's become."--BOOK JACKET. |
Wherever that great heart may be: stories By Wetherell, W. D. Publishing Date: c1996 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS ~ Nine idiosyncratic, moving stories from the author of, most recently, The Wisest Man in America (1995). In his first collection since Hyannis Boat (1989), Wetherell offers a number of deftly crafted variations on the struggles of parents and children to create a shared language--often in tales set among families living by choice or misfortune on the fringe of society. In ``The Road to the City,'' a boy, in the course of an absurd trip with his feckless father, tries desperately to penetrate the reasons for the man's increasingly manic behavior, while the frightened young boy in ``The Snow'' fights to find a way to help his embattled, isolated family survive a massive blizzard. In ``Natale's Hat,'' a grown man and his elderly, ailing, bitter father are caught up in a less lethal but nonetheless alarming tangle with nature while crossing Lake Como. ``In a Maritime Province'' traces the awkward attempts of a long-absent father and his disaffected 17-year-old daughter to comfort each other in the wake of a death. ``The Greatest Mayan Speller Extant'' is an exact, heartbreaking portrait of a young girl from South America exploited by a hustler attempting to cash in on her startling talent. And ``Those Who Cross,'' one of Wetherell's most audacious tales, is a fable set in a timeless rural past, describing in precise, beautifully modulated prose the manner in which a boy, fascinated by the river that flows past the family farm, becomes for a brief time a ferryman transporting the souls of the dead across the water. The title story, in which a man recollects the wonderful tales his exuberant grandfather once told him, is a lovely celebration of the ability of stories to stir, and transmit, something essential in our nature, an ability repeatedly on display here. A strong collection from one of the most ambitious and inventive writers working in the form. Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews |
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