If you liked the short stories plot in The Conventional Wisdom by Stanley Elkin , here is a list of 16 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
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- short stories
2. 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
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- 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
3. 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
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- short stories
4. 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
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- short stories
5. 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
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- short stories
6. 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
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7. 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
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9. 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
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11. That will be Fine
By: William Faulkner
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
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- short stories
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- short stories
14. 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
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- short stories
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- short stories
16. 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
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- 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
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- short stories
18. The Conventional Wisdom
By: Stanley Elkin
3.54
Format: 24 pages, None
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21. 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
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