A Confederacy of Dunces

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Frederick Buechner

Godric by Frederick Buechner is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.

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Shirley Ann Grau

The South of these nine stories is filled with tension, crisis, and decision: a man walks out of prison only to entangle himself in the strands of his malevolent past; a diabolic stranger sets a small community against itself; a family clothes its poverty with genteel pretense; a wife acquiesces to her husband and in-laws' connivance over a forged will. From the black bayou waters of Louisiana to the red clay gullies of Alabama's pine woods, in the menacing shadows of the Pair-a-Dice Bar and around a family kitchen table by the first light of morning, Shirley Ann Grau's characters face the enormity of death, dream of crossing the color line, and test themselves and others in a variety of ways. An honest and unsentimental writer, Grau has created a remarkable range of characters and situations that will haunt readers' memories long after their stories have been set aside.

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A. S. Byatt

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories is a celebrated work by A. S. Byatt (Booker Prize Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.

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Jesse Hill Ford

In a Tennessee town, the effort of a Negro to procure a divorce excites the forces of bigotry and hatred because his wife's adulteries have been with a white man.