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The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ryan, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisa Taddeo, Ling Ma, Catherine Lacey, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
“[A] standout collection . . . . Dazzling performances from some of today’s most exciting writers. . . . This is one of the best fiction anthologies in years.”—Publishers Weekly starred review
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including several stories in translation. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.
THE WINNING STORIES:
“Office Hours,” by Ling Ma
“Man Mountain,” by Catherine Lacey
“Me, Rory and Aurora,” by Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
“The Complete,” by Gabriel Smith
“The Haunting of Hajji Hotak," by Jamil Jan Kochai
“Wisconsin,” by Lisa Taddeo
“Ira & the Whale,” by Rachel B. Glaser
“The Commander’s Teeth,” by Naomi Shuyama-Gómez
“The Mad People of Paris,” Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead
“Snake & Submarine,” by Shelby Kinney-Lang
“The Mother,” by Jacob M’hango
“The Hollow,” by ’Pemi Aguda
“Dream Man,” by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Francisca González-Arias
“The Locksmith,” by Grey Wolfe LaJoie
“After Hours at the Acacia Park Pool,” by Kirstin Valdez Quade
“Happy Is a Doing Word,” by Arinze Ifeakandu
“Elision,” by David Ryan
“Xífù,” by K-Ming Chang
“Temporary Housing,” by Kathleen Alcott
“The Blackhills,” by Eamon McGuinness
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- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Kristen DiMercurio, Blair Young, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more.
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2 out of 5 stars
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First several are Bleak, downers
- De Otis Lake en 04-07-25
De: Amor Towles - editor, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2024
- De: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine, Vikas Adam, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great collection of short stories
- De Michael en 02-25-25
De: Lauren Groff, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
- De: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, Pascale Armand, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Year of Shorts
- De Michael en 01-18-24
De: Min Jin Lee, y otros
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- De: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- De Carol V. Macvey en 03-04-21
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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Collected Fictions
- De: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley - translator
- Narrado por: Castulo Guerra
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Borges Collected Fictions Trans Hurley
- De 0 en 09-08-23
De: Jorge Luis Borges, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Best American
- De: Andrew Sean Greer - editor, Heidi Pitlor - series editor
- Narrado por: Andrew Sean Greer, Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 16
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So depressing
- De pj en 02-21-23
De: Andrew Sean Greer - editor, y otros
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50 Greatest Short Stories
- De: Terry O'Brien - editor, Terry O'Brien - introduction
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Deepti Gupta
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 13
Selected from the best of the world's short fiction, 50 Great Short Stories brings together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, listeners are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed
- De Nicole Singer en 12-14-18
De: Terry O'Brien - editor, y otros
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The Deluge
- De: Stephen Markley
- Narrado por: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, y otros
- Duración: 40 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 365
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get into it.
- De Review Reviewer en 01-20-23
De: Stephen Markley
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Good Things Out of Nazareth
- The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends
- De: Flannery O'Connor, Ben Alexander
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Dorothy Dillingham Blue, full cast
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
A literary treasure of over 100 unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O’Connor is a master of 20th-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and did.
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2 out of 5 stars
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this narrator's faux southern accent is abominable
- De Tnarg Yrat en 11-10-19
De: Flannery O'Connor, y otros
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- De: Junot Díaz
- Narrado por: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,803
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,658
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,653
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lin-Manuel Miranda's performance is perfect
- De Alison en 02-27-18
De: Junot Díaz
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Just an Ordinary Day
- Stories
- De: Shirley Jackson
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House - classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe - Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captures a Bygone Era
- De Anonymous User en 11-11-22
De: Shirley Jackson
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A People's Future of the United States
- Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
- De: Victor LaValle - editor, John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Darrell Dennis, William DeMeritt, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America - from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit brilliant, a little reactionary.
- De Thomas J Lee en 04-16-23
De: Victor LaValle - editor, y otros
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024
- De: Otto Penzler - editor foreword, Anthony Horowitz - editor introduction
- Narrado por: Kim Niemi, BJ Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enough stumbling and phone won’t work
- De deepdvr_ca en 03-02-25
De: Otto Penzler - editor foreword, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2019
- De: Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Heidi Pitlor, Scott Shepherd, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 19
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great year of Shorts
- De Michael en 01-19-24
De: Anthony Doerr, y otros
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All over Creation
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrado por: Ruth Ozeki
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama. The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car, “The Spudnick,” biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ozeki !!!
- De Leah en 01-03-25
De: Ruth Ozeki
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
- De: John Freeman - editor
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In the past 50 years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have brought this unique US genre a thrilling burst of energy. This rich anthology celebrates this avalanche of talent. Beginning in 1970, it culls together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including - for the first time in a literary anthology - science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too dark for my taste
- De Lazy Chicken en 10-03-22
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The Circus Train
- De: Amita Parikh
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena—who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio—yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, her mind stronger than the limitations placed on her by society. Then her unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Lisa M. Jolley en 03-19-23
De: Amita Parikh
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,875
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,623
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,610
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe a beautiful story, This author should never narrate
- De Student en 01-02-20
De: Toni Morrison
I look forward to hearing more stories from these talented writers. I highly recommend this.
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Every story is overwhelmingly melancholy.
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