Three Paths to the Lake
by Ingeborg Bachmann | 
The Thirtieth Year
by Ingeborg Bachmann | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Crime
by Ferdinand von Schirach | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth |
In Search of Satisfaction
by J. California Cooper | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin |
Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout | 
A Piece of Mine
by J. California Cooper |
The Matter Is Life
by J. California Cooper | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel |
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper | 
Some Soul To Keep
by J. California Cooper | 
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
by William Gay | 
Thirteen Ways of Looking
by Colum McCann |
The Complete Stories
by Zora Neale Hurston |
The truth is, as a character in this provocative new collection puts it, "passionate, beautiful, and hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it's always liberating." In "After the Season," a man of humble means falls quickly in love with a woman belonging to a much elevated financial status and wrestles with his feelings and his beliefs about the rich. A son takes his distant father to a Bach festival in "Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen" only to learn that perhaps he was the one who was never really present in their relationship. And in "The Night in Baden-Baden" a man who's caught in a lie changes his ways - by sleeping with another woman only after being accused.