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NEW TITLES • SHORT STORIES NEW TITLES • SHORT STORIES To view tables of contents, visit: WWW.PENGUIN.COM/TOC CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS JOHN O’HARA Battleborn The New York Stories PAID Presort Std EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN GOLDLEAF In ten stories reminiscent of the work of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Annie U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 FOREWORD BY E. L. DOCTOROW Proulx, Watkins writes her way into the mythology of the American West, reimagining its Staten Island, NY vast, lonely spaces—from ghost towns to deserts to brothels—as redemptive territories. Collected for the first time, these unsparing stories present New York as observed by one “[These stories] tell the tale of a place, and of the population that thrives and perishes of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city and by a master of American realism. therein....Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken “Superb....The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side—wiser, warier, and paper pushers and society matrons....Undoubtedly, between the 1930s and the 1970s, weathered like the landscape.”—The New York Times Book Review [O’Hara] was American fiction’s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 304 PP. • 978-1-59463-145-0 • $16.00 and tone of all strata of mid-century society....What elevates O’Hara above slice-of-life Winner of the 2012 Story Prize and Recipient of the portraitists like Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner is the turmoil glimpsed beneath the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award vibrant surfaces.”—The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-14-310709-5 • $17.00 JUNOT DÍAZ This Is How You Lose Her SAUL BELLOW “Electrifying....[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it Collected Stories becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signa- EDITED WITH A PREFACE BY JANIS BELLOW ture Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and USA INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review This feast for lovers of short stories includes, among others, “Leaving the Yellow House,” “A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction “Cousins,” “The Old System,” “The Silver Dish,” “Something to Remember Me By” and both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPR the semi-autobiographical “By the St. Lawrence.” RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59463-177-1 • $16.00 “[Bellow is] the greatest American author ever, in my view....His sentences seem to weigh A 2012 National Book Award Finalist more than anyone else’s. He is like a force of nature....He breaks all the rules....[T]he PENGUIN GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, SHORT people in Bellow’s fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them MANUEL GONZALES in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal.”—Martin Amis PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PP. • 978-0-14-310725-5 • $20.00 The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories Exuberantly imagined chronicles from a world in which the fantastic has become com- T.C. BOYLE monplace and ordinary lives open to extraordinary danger and beauty. Gonzales’ 18 short stories are strikingly original and told with the narrative grace of a born storyteller. STORIES T.C. Boyle Stories II “A beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II powers of the imagination and language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, NEW TITLES FOR 2014 This second volume of short fiction features 58 stories from a master of the form. Written horror, and grace.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears over the last 18 years, the work collected here reflects Boyle’s maturing themes, from his RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 304 PP. • 978-1-59448-604-3 • $26.95 exploration of contemporary social issues to his character-driven contemplation of en- RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 320 PP. • 978-1-59463-227-3 • $16.00 Paperback available February 2014 during tropes, like the consequences of first love and the pain of confronting mortality. “[Boyle is] a writer born to elegance and equipped with keen eyes, ears and a preternatu- ral skill at evoking the objects of his roving interest.”—The Los Angeles Times RAMONA AUSUBEL VIKING HARDCOVER • 944 PP. • 978-0-670-02625-8 • $45.00 A Guide to Being Born This enthralling new collection of eleven imaginative, provocative stories in the vein of A. M. HOMES Aimee Bender and Karen Russell is organized around the stages of life—love, concep- tion, gestation, birth—and the transformations that accompany deeply altering events The Safety of Objects like falling in love, becoming parents, and looking toward death. First published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this collection of stories confronts the “Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal real and the surreal on even terms to create a disturbing vision of the American dream. and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected....The dis- Included here are some of the best examples of Home’s satirical exposés of the dangers of may of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s ordinary life, including “Adults Alone,” “A Real Doll,” and “Looking for Johnny.” characters and beginning all over again.”—The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN GROUP USA “Full of subversive humor and truth...original and stiletto sharp.”—The Washington Post RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PP. • 978-1-59448-795-8 • $26.95 WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312270-8 • $15.00 our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: WWW.PENGUIN.COM/FACINFO For complimentary examination copies and personalized For complimentary examination copies and personalized PENGUIN GROUP USA • WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC • SHORT STORIES 2014 assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up PENGUIN GROUP USA • WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC • SHORT STORIES 2014 ShortStories_2014_Penguin_Corrected.indd 1 11/11/13 1:37 PM NEW TITLES • SHORT STORIES NEW TITLES • SHORT STORIES To view tables of contents, visit: WWW.PENGUIN.COM/TOC CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS JOHN O’HARA Battleborn The New York Stories PAID Presort Std EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN GOLDLEAF In ten stories reminiscent of the work of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Annie U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 FOREWORD BY E. L. DOCTOROW Proulx, Watkins writes her way into the mythology of the American West, reimagining its Staten Island, NY vast, lonely spaces—from ghost towns to deserts to brothels—as redemptive territories. Collected for the first time, these unsparing stories present New York as observed by one “[These stories] tell the tale of a place, and of the population that thrives and perishes of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city and by a master of American realism. therein....Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken “Superb....The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side—wiser, warier, and paper pushers and society matrons....Undoubtedly, between the 1930s and the 1970s, weathered like the landscape.”—The New York Times Book Review [O’Hara] was American fiction’s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 304 PP. • 978-1-59463-145-0 • $16.00 and tone of all strata of mid-century society....What elevates O’Hara above slice-of-life Winner of the 2012 Story Prize and Recipient of the portraitists like Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner is the turmoil glimpsed beneath the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award vibrant surfaces.”—The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-14-310709-5 • $17.00 JUNOT DÍAZ This Is How You Lose Her SAUL BELLOW “Electrifying....[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it Collected Stories becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signa- EDITED WITH A PREFACE BY JANIS BELLOW ture Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and USA INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review This feast for lovers of short stories includes, among others, “Leaving the Yellow House,” “A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction “Cousins,” “The Old System,” “The Silver Dish,” “Something to Remember Me By” and both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPR the semi-autobiographical “By the St. Lawrence.” RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59463-177-1 • $16.00 “[Bellow is] the greatest American author ever, in my view....His sentences seem to weigh A 2012 National Book Award Finalist more than anyone else’s. He is like a force of nature....He breaks all the rules....[T]he PENGUIN GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, SHORT people in Bellow’s fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them MANUEL GONZALES in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal.”—Martin Amis PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PP.