Fiction
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Daughters of Muscadine: Stories [Hardback]
Monic Ductan (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9781950564330
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine,... .... Learn More -
River Of Earth [Paperback]
James Still (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780813195353
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense... .... Learn More -
Becoming Yourself in the World: A Series of Seven Short Stories [Paperback]
Zhen Wen (Author); Dave Haysom (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9781626430938
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Series: Bridge21 Contemporary Chinese Literature
Volume: 2
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The book is composed of seven short stories. Night Train is a story of a divorcing couple who decide to make their last journey together in this world before parting forever; Shepherd depicts a romance between a teacher and a student, which, thoug... .... Learn More -
Small in Real Life: Stories [Hardback]
Kelly Sather (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780822947998
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories [Hardback]
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780813196978
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
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"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?"
Questions like this sit between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage the nuance of African women's histories. Their history is not just one thing, there... .... Learn More -
Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty [Hardback]
Gerald Vizenor (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780819500427
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair.
In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exp... .... Learn More -
Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty [Paperback]
Gerald Vizenor (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780819500434
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair.
In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exp... .... Learn More -
Even As We Breathe: A Novel [Paperback]
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781950564323
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills... .... Learn More -
The Selected Stories of Xu Zechen: Plum Rain and Other Works [Paperback]
Zechen Xu (Author); Fernando Arrieta (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9781626430891
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Series: Bridge21 Contemporary Chinese Literature
Volume: 1
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This book contains 6 works written by Xu Zechen, a leading figure of Chinese Post-1970 writers in different periods. It reflects the different creative characteristics of the author in each period, and also draws a relatively complete outline of t... .... Learn More -
Ink: A Novel [Hardback]
Angela Woodward (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780813196534
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
The brutality of war and abuse is juxtaposed with the banal in this story of two women who spend their days transcribing the testimonies of Abu Ghraib prisoners. The prisoners' gruesome accounts of physical and sexual abuse, torture, sodomy, and m... .... Learn More
