11 short books for the Labor Day weekend as Erik Pedersen writes The Book Pages newsletter.
Has this happened to you? Someone tells you about a book you must read and you’re thrilled – until you realize it’s a Very Big One, a wonderful slab of words so thick it needs its own seat on an airplane.
Big books are great, no argument. But hear me out: What about short ones? Slim editions to slip into your pocket as talismans against unwelcome conversation at the DMV or a distraction while you await your lunch order.Sign up for our free Book Pages newsletter about bestsellers, authors and more Before the long Labor Day weekend kicks off, I thought I’d suggest some superbly slim books for summer’s end. You’ll find a mix of fiction and nonfiction, crime and horror, translation and poetry, and nearly all can be read in one sitting or slipped in between bouts of scrolling through social media.Published in 1977, this award-winning short novel by a former Pomona College professor is a delight.
, is brief but intense. Nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize, it tells the story of two Senegalese soldiers serving in the French military during the brutal trench fighting of World War I. It’s often described as “harrowing” for its depiction of violence, brutality and oppression, and I can only agree.Short novels don’t always have to be gobbled down quickly. I’ve taken my time with this deliciously eerie book about a family in a house near a strange, unsettling forest.
, this collection of short fiction by Surrealist artist and writer Carrington is full of the unexpected, beginning with its first story about a debutante who – preferring to stay in her room reading – enlists a friend to attend an event in her place. That friend is a hyena.I’ve read other Manchette, but I pulled out this compact, 91-page book to read its first short chapter and the terse story kicks off with a bang.
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