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Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange, immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear "into the undertow / of hunger for the next thing and the next, " and mannequins "stand in their angelic armor."Placed at intervals throughout t...

With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America. The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks at our relationships with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion, and gives voice to the emotions that lie unexplored and unexpressed beneath their seemingly p...

From the mound, or Butte, next to Polygon Wood, one can see all of World War I simply by turning around. The front line never varied more than a mile anna half in any direction from this strongpoint, in a small corner of Belgium that remained in Allied hands throughout the war.

A woman. Her teenage daughter. A sinfully handsome, rugged outdoorsman. The savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. From start to burning finish, Karen Robards tracks the perils of the wilderness, the hidden face of violence, and, most awesome of all, the powerful feelings that evolve between men and women when lives are at stake. HC: Delacorte Press. (Fiction--General)

Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." But they all bear the hallmarks--the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience--that Ellison would bring to his classic I...

Examines some of the incidents and individuals associated with this infamous battleground. Illus.