Helping
By: Robert Stone
3.70
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Limited edition of this short story, one of only 100 copies signed by Stone, hand set in Centaur ty…
Want to Read"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."-Robert Stone, Helping
"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."-Robert Stone, Helping
If you liked the short stories plot in Helping by Robert Stone , here is a list of 25 books like this:
1. The Conversion of the Jews
By: Philip Roth
3.99
Format: 40 pages, Library Binding
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Philip Roth's The Conversion of the Jews book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
2. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
3. Fiesta, 1980
By: Junot Díaz
3.46
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, cons… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Junot Díaz's Fiesta, 1980 book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
4. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
5. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Donald Barthelme's The School book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
6. Harmony of the World: Stories
By: Charles Baxter
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Charles Baxter's Harmony of the World: Stories book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
7. What You Pawn I Will Redeem
By: Sherman Alexie
3.42
Format: None pages,
A homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty year… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sherman Alexie's What You Pawn I Will Redeem book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
8. Haircut
By: Ring Lardner
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
A barber regales a customer with stories about some of the characters in his small town. read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ring Lardner's Haircut book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
9. Babylon Revisited
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited book and Robert Stone's Helping
10. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)
By: S.J. Parris
3.55
Format: 288 pages,
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in S.J. Parris's Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1) book and Robert Stone's Helping
11. Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
The triumphant collection of short stories by America's most acclaimed novelist. read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Updike's Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories book and Robert Stone's Helping
Similar categories in John Cheever's The Enormous Radio book and Robert Stone's Helping
13. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? book and Robert Stone's Helping
Similar categories in Ernest Hemingway's My Old Man book and Robert Stone's Helping
15. That will be Fine
By: William Faulkner
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
None read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in William Faulkner's That will be Fine book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Grace Paley's Friends book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Eudora Welty's The Whole World Knows book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
18. The Cracked Looking-Glass
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.04
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Cracked Looking-Glass book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Sherwood Anderson's Brothers book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
20. Helping
By: Robert Stone
3.70
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Limited edition of this short story, one of only 100 copies signed by Stone, hand set in Centaur ty… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Stone's Helping book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."-Robert Stone, Helping
Similar categories in Edna Ferber's The Gay Old Dog book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's By The River book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
23. The Conventional Wisdom
By: Stanley Elkin
3.54
Format: 24 pages, None
None read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Stanley Elkin's The Conventional Wisdom book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Mona Simpson's Lawns book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Z.Z. Packer's Brownies book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
26. The Third and Final Continent
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 19 pages, None
"I left India in 1964 with a certificate in commerce and the equivalent, in those days, of ten doll… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Third and Final Continent book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
27. If You Sing Like That For Me
By: Akhil Sharma
3.61
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
"What distinguishes a great story writer from a mediocre one? Akhil Sharma would be among the few l… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in Akhil Sharma's If You Sing Like That For Me book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
28. The Girl on the Plane
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.42
Format: None pages, None
None read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mary Gaitskill's The Girl on the Plane book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in Jamaica Kincaid's Xuela book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
Similar categories in David Wong Louie's Displacement book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
31. Communist
By: Richard Ford
3.12
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Limited to 240 numbered copies, this being one of 180 bound thus and signed by the author.Title pag… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard Ford's Communist book and Robert Stone's Helping
- short stories
