Browsing: Short Stories

Dylan’s playboy reputation is threatening his pro soccer career. Being seen with good girl Brooke could be just what the cocky Brit needs to reinvent himself — but he never imagined he’d wind up playing for keeps!

This “richly imagined” collection (Chicago Tribune) brims with vibrant, sweeping stories — from a circus elephant’s death to a violinist’s revelatory concert. “Rife with sentences that will stop you in your tracks with their strangeness and profundity… Makkai is a musical writer” (Library Journal starred review).

From a National Book Award–winning author who is “among America’s greatest short story writers ever” (O, The Oprah Magazine) comes a “revolutionary” collection (The New York Times Book Review) of classic stories set in the South.