Indelible Acts
by A. L. Kennedy | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love | 
The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud | 
One Arm and Other Stories
by Tennessee Williams | 
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace | 
The Shell Collector
by Anthony Doerr | 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis Johnson | 
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley | 
Microscripts
by Robert Walser | 
The Great Frustration
by Seth Fried |
Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, A.L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and the impossibility of communication, Kennedy also reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together, the crazed claustrophobia of the family adn the wildly funny results of an eccentricity unleashed.