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How We Are Hungry

Published
Oct 2005
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General Fiction General Fiction
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224

About This Book

In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story.

"These tales reinvigorate … the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." —San Francisco Chronicle

Including the stories:"Another"  
"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"  
"The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water"  
"On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home"  
"Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"  
"She Waits, Seething, Blooming"  
"Quiet"  
"Your Mother and I"  
"Naveed"  
"Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"  
"About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"  
"Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"  
"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"

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First Edition Oct 2005 Vintage ISBN 0676977804
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First Edition Oct 2005 Vintage ISBN 1400095565
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Nov 2004 McSweeney's Books ISBN 1932416137
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Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN 0307426300
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Dec 2007 Vintage ISBN B000XU8E9G
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Dec 2007 Vintage Canada ISBN 0307369064
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Nov 2011 Penguin ISBN 0241958849
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Jul 2011 Recorded Books ISBN B005B6Y55Y
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