Böcker i Drue Heinz Literature Prize-serien

In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides.

The Debut of a Masterful Short Story Writer, Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Library Journal Best Book of 2018

Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, and overwhelming megastore cereal aisles. Keenly observed, offering both sharp humor and humanity, these stories explore the ties that bind and the fine line between the mundane and the maudlin.

Feeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcee Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: ""I feel lonely she wrote, then crossed it out. She didn't like the idea of someone coming along later to read her journal, finding out she felt lonely"".

The flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we've lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don't know about ourselves.

Winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize A compelling collection of short stories about expartriots and natives in modern Saudi Arabia, and the uneasy mesh of divergent peoples in a desert land where oil is the source of riches and cultural upheaval.

Through wry, ironic prose-and what feels like firsthand experience-Wallace describes a comic and often misguided search for self-knowledge in the most unlikely locations-like the Emerald City, a low-rent gambling den where a cocktail waitress dressed as an X-rated Dorothy offers gamblers more than a Scotch on the rocks;

Winner of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the nine stories in this selection are full of quirky, complex, and vividly drawn characters who live on the margins of New York society.

Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories.

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeTold in precise, evocative prose that skewers the heart of the matter time after time, these memorable stories view and illuminate the human condition from a compelling, funny and entirely original perspective.

Winner of the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The stories explore America's obsession with news and entertainment culture. In the title story, a theme park has attractions where visitors relive actual news events such as "OJ's Bronco: The Ride", and "Seige at Waco".

In the title story, a man at a backyard barbecue waits for a blind date who never shows up. In "I'll Be Home," a young man who has converted to Judaism goes home for Christmas in Miami, and finds that his desire to connect to his parents conflicts with his need to move on.