Antonya Nelson

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, Antonya Nelson's debut collection of stories displays the off-beat perceptions, the humor, and the sensibility that have won the author not only critical acclaim but a host of devoted readers. Most of the stori...

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories by the author of The Expendables explores a world of migrant workers, blue-collar laborers, transient lovers, weak- spirited husbands, and women who define their lives by a need for men's love....

• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction
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Seven stories and a novella by the award-winning writer of The Expendables explore the heart of contemporary life and the ties of love, faith, anxiety, and antagonism that bind families together. Reprint. 12,000 first printing....

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist ...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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It's been nineteen months since thirty-year-old Birdy Stone came to Pinetop. Birdy spends her days trying to teach her students to appreciate the beauty of literature and her nights getting high with Jesus, her gay colleague and confidant. Birdy rega...

• Jun-2000
• / Fantasy
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After spending five years in prison for killing his beloved grandmother in a drunk driving accident, thirty-three-year-old Winston Mabie is returning to his Wichita, Kansas, childhood home and the sisters and parents he left behind. Though the surrou...

• Apr-2002
• / General Fiction
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"Nelson's prose is precise and energetic, and her insights delight because they manage to be at once surprising and so right as to seem inevitable." -- The New York Times Book Review Antonya Nelson is widely regarded as one of America's most talent...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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One of the most award-winning, critically acclaimed story writers working today, Antonya Nelson has a list of accolades that is astonishing for any writer, but especially for one as young as she. With her newest collection, Nelson once again proves h...

• Feb-2009
• / General Fiction
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Set in the American southwest, this collection of stories feature characters transitioning from adolescence, to young adulthood, to middle age. Their personal conflicts parallel those of contemporary Americans, post-911, as these artfully rendered ch...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary
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A STORY OF TANGLED LIVES, SET IN A WICHITA RIVETED BY THE REEMERGENCE OF AN INFAMOUS SERIAL KILLER. Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her l...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her ...