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REACHING INSIDE: CONTENTSIntroduction: Andre Dubus III Ann Patchett Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin The Long-Distance Runner, Grace PaleyMary Gordon I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne PorterMadison Smartt Bell King of the Mountain, George GarrettSredni Vashtar, Saki Meg Wolitzer Clay, James Joyce Yours, Mary RobisonDani Shapiro Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges Getting Closer, Steven MillhauserZZ Packer The ...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprahs Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog a big-hearted, painful novel

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killedor killing someone elseor to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his fathe...

Florida, Anfang September 2001: Die junge Stripperin April nimmt ihre dreijährige Tochter Franny mit zur Arbeit im Puma Club. Jean, ihre einsame alte Vermieterin mit dem wunderschönen Garten voller Blumen, liebt die Kleine von ganzem Herzen und passt sonst immer auf sie auf, doch heute ist sie wegen einer Panikattacke im Krankenhaus. In dieser Nacht hat April einen ungewöhnlichen Kunden: Bassam, einen jungen Araber, der gleichzeitig hasserfüll...

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Il tragico duello tra un uomo e una donna, tra due vite e culture diverse. Tutto accade a San Francisco, nella stagione calda in cui la nebbia avvolge la baia e nasconde la linea dell'oceano. Kathy Nicolo è arrivata in California dalla costa orientale insieme al marito, ma da quando lui se n'è andato, senza lasciare traccia, lei è sola e smarrita, senza amici né famiglia, tormentata dall'incubo di ricadere nella dipendenza dall'alcol, obbligat...

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