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  | | Like You'd Understand, Anyway(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jim Shepard Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27760-2, ISBN: 0-307-27760-7 "Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogenâ“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”âJim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus takin ..." |
 | | The Book of Aron(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jim Shepard Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87274-1, ISBN: 1-101-87274-8 "The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust. Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly batt ..." |
 | | You Think That's Bad (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jim Shepard Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74214-8, ISBN: 0-307-74214-8 "Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, ..." |
 | | Project X(Reprint) A Novel by Jim Shepard Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3348-5, ISBN: 1-4000-3348-9 "In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily. Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the h ..." |
 | | The World to Come(1st Edition) Stories by Jim Shepard Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3180-9, ISBN: 1-5247-3180-3 ""Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eightee ..." |
 | | The World to Come(Reprint) Stories by Jim Shepard Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43231-9, ISBN: 0-525-43231-0 "In The World to Come, Jim Shepard (“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America” —The Daily Beast) traverses both borders and centuries. Seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, he gives voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits, from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic’s most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home ..." |
 | | Love and Hydrogen(1st Edition) New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3349-2, ISBN: 1-4000-3349-7 "I’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, re-closing Stay-Fresh boxes, and staying out of the way. This is the self-eulogy offered early on by the unwilling hero of the opening story in this ..." |
 | | Master of Miniatures(Updated) by Jim Shepard Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2011 by Solid Objects ISBN-13: 978-0-9844142-3-9, ISBN: 0-9844142-3-1 "Fiction. "As in Nosferatu, with its smartly imagined life of the German film director F. W. Murnau, here Shepard considers the Japanese special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla. And like many of Shepard's stories, MASTER OF MINIATURES limns the intense and alienated world of a focused expert obsessed with his field of endeavor, at a cost to his marriage and ch ..." |
 | | The World to Come Stories by Jim Shepard Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Riverrun ISBN-13: 978-1-78648-506-9, ISBN: 1-78648-506-0 "A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivalled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices as diverse as those belonging to Arctic explorers in history's most nightmarish expedition, the Montgolfier brothers competing to be the first man to fly, and two American f ..." |
 | | Nosferatu A Novel by Jim Shepard, Ron Hansen Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2005 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9346-5, ISBN: 0-8032-9346-1 "From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888–1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard’s Murnau—through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and ..." |
 | | Kiss Of The Wolf by Jim Shepard Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1995 by Harvest Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-600140-3, ISBN: 0-15-600140-3 |
 | | Unleashed(1st Edition) Poems by Writers' Dogs by Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 1995 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-517-70140-9, ISBN: 0-517-70140-5 "The dogs of America's most respected writers and thinkers have miraculously found their voices, and the exciting list of contributors includes William Wegman, Thom Gunn, Cynthia Heimel, John Irving, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, and many others. Along with their verses, each author also provides a photograph or drawing of his or her bardic beast." |
 | | The Tunnel at the End of the Light(1st Edition) Essays on Movies and Politics by Jim Shepard Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Tin House Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941040-72-0, ISBN: 1-941040-72-1 ""Shepard may be the best lesser-known film critic." ―The New York Times Book Review The first book of nonfiction from one of our great fiction writers.Given that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe, for example, ..." |
 | | You Think That's Bad(1st Edition) Stories by Jim Shepard Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59482-2, ISBN: 0-307-59482-3 "Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, ..." |
 | | Like You'd Understand, Anyway(1st Edition) Stories by Jim Shepard Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26521-0, ISBN: 0-307-26521-8 "Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking hi ..." |
 | | Project X(1st Edition) (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Jim Shepard Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2004 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4071-1, ISBN: 1-4000-4071-X "Below the sign welcoming the new eighth-grade class to school is one that promises to leave no child unsuccessful and a handout that offers eight ways of being smart. For Edwin Hanratty, at times as hilarious as he is miserable, this is part of what makes junior high pretty much a relentless nightmare. And so, with Flake, his only friend, he contends with clique upon clique—the jocks who pummel them, the girls who ignore or taunt them—a ..." |
 | | Kiss of the Wolf(1st Edition) by Jim Shepard, Jim Shepherd Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 1994 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-147279-6, ISBN: 0-15-147279-3 "When this spare, suspenseful tale opens, Joanie Mucherino has recently been abandoned by her husband, and she is trying to cope while dealing with her eleven-year-old son, Todd, and her comically tactless and intrusive Italian family. To complicate matters, Joanie is now "available" in the eyes of Bruno Minea, a family friend with shadowy connections whose twenty-year passion for her has been flattering but faintly frightening. All of t ..." |
 | | You've Got to Read This(1st Edition) Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe by Ron Hansen, Jim Shepard Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 1994 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-098202-7, ISBN: 0-06-098202-0 "Gathers stories by James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Angela Carter, John Cheever, Franz Kafka, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Leo Tolstoy, Eudora Welty, and Vladimir Nabokov" |
 | | Invaders 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature by W. P. Kinsella, Steven Millhauser, Jim Shepard, Amiri Baraka, Professor Max Apple, Jacob Weisman, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-61696-210-4, ISBN: 1-61696-210-0 "The invasion of the future has begun. Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diaz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up. In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company t ..." |
 | | The Book of Aron(1st Edition) A novel by Jim Shepard Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87431-8, ISBN: 1-101-87431-7 "The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust. Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly batt ..." |
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