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Cold Snap
From Amazon.com: Thom Jones may be one of the few authors whose acknowledgments thank not only his dog, wife, and agent, but also Wyeth/Ayerst Laboratories and Stuart Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of Effexor and Elavil--"drugs so good they feel [... more]
CDN$16.04
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The Pugilist at Rest
From Amazon.com: Thom Jones's first collection of stories is a revelation. In prose that sounds like nobody else, Jones channels a variety of distinctively different voices, from the lustful book editor of "Unchain My Heart" to the epileptic, [... more]
CDN$23.99
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Rumble, Young Man, Rumble
Over-hyped and not-too-cool: Boy, was I disappointed! I bought this book because I thought the topic might be interesting and because it seemed to be getting moderate-to-good reviews. There is one good story among the nine-story count: the last one, [... more]
CDN$18.00
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Garden State
ditto to the reader from Miss.: So my favorites are Thom Jones, Denis Johnson, George Saunders, Rick Bass, and the like. Someone said "Oh you should check out Moody". In a word, this book was slow. I found it hard to care about and the only [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: ...
This is the anthology you've been looking for!: I buy a lot of short story collections, single author and anthology collections, looking for quality. Finding those rare jewels was hard but seemed worth the trouble, until now. You don't have to search so [... more]
CDN$22.99
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The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
The Ice at the Bottom of the World: I've never read a short story collection like this one. I've since read it dozens of times and have sought out everything written by Mark Richard. The most frustrating thing about his books is that he doesn't write [... more]
CDN$16.95
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