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The Corrected TextOne of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern menage a trois of flyers on the...

and Other StoriesThe New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need.Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded...

DISPONIBLE POR PRIMERA VEZ EN EBOOKElogiado por la crtica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el pas y traducido a una multitud de idiomas,La casa en Mango Streetes la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a travAA(c)s de una serie de vietas a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente...

Nicky Marlow needs a job. Hes engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fianc points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures hell be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however,...

A ridiculed night editor for a prestigious newspaper.An overburdened nuclear engineer.A female fighter pilot.A religiously impassioned young reporter. A sergeant major thrust into the responsibilities of a secretive command.Moving from a newsroom in the American capital to a cockpit over Afghanistan, from an Iranian cemetery to a military...

Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens' sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives....