Books written by Mary Robison

  • Dime. Treinta cuentos

    Sacó una bolsa de plástico y la dejó en la alfombra, junto a la cabeza de Charlie. –Mira –dijo Don. Sacó media docena de cometas de la bolsa. Las cometas estaban hechas de papel de arroz, tiras de madera muy fina y cordel.

  • Days: Stories

    “Neal?” “Honey, I did. See?” He stuck out a flattened hand. “See what?” “I'm shaking. Are you happy?” “I don't see any shake,” Nancy said. She bent closer to Neal's hand and studied the long clean nails and thin hairless fingers.

  • An Amateur's Guide to the Night: Stories

    Reflecting on the life of disaffected youth, these stories speculate on how they often manage to remain deferent towards the rest of society—and document how spectacularly they often fail.

  • Dime: Treinta cuentos

    Dime: Treinta cuentos

  • Tell Me: Thirty Stories

    “Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America.” —The New York Times Book Review Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career.

  • Tell Me: Thirty Stories

    “This won't tell it,” she said, and finger-snapped the watch face. She was bare-legged. She wore a cocktail dress, a bowler hat, ugly black shoes. “Would you just talk to me for a second?” I asked. The woman pulled back.

  • Why Did I Ever: A Novel

    Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison’s devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.