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A Study Guide For Thom Jones S The Pugilist At Rest
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
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A Study Guide For Thom Jones S The Pugilist At Rest written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
The Pugilist At Rest
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-11-08
The Pugilist At Rest written by Thom Jones and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Fiction categories.
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards and was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 1992. He is a writer of astonishing talent. Jones's stories - whether set in the combat zones of Vietnam or the brittle social and intellectual milieu of an elite New England college, whether recounting the poignant last battles of an alcoholic ex-fighter or the hallucinatory visions of an American wandering lost in Bombay in the aftermath of an epileptic fugue - are fueled by an almost brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. Physically battered, soul-sick, and morally exhausted, Jones's characters are yet unable to concede defeat: his stories are infused with the improbable grace of the spirit that ought to collapse, but cannot. For in these extraordinary pieces of fiction, it is not goodness that finally redeems us, but the heart's illogical resilience, and the ennobling tenacity with which we cling to each other and to our lives. The publication of The Pugilist at Rest is a major literary event, heralding the arrival of an electrifying new voice in American fiction, and a writer of magnificent depth and range. With these eleven stories, Thom Jones takes his place among the ranks of this country's most important authors.
The Pugilist At Rest
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-05
The Pugilist At Rest written by Thom Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with American fiction categories.
Thom Jones's magnificent collection of stories presents a brutal and authentic vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. The Pugilist at Rest gives us an America of Vietnam vets and ex-boxers, of bitter lovers in trailer parks, of lives passing in brilliant epileptic flickers. These ferocious, semi-autobiographical stories form the debut collection by a distinctive and hugely talented writer. Thom Jones was discovered as a writer relatively late in life, in his forties, by the fiction editors at the New Yorker, who published many of Jones's stories from the early 1990s onwards. The title story of this collection went on to win the O. Henry Award for Best Short Story.
The Pugilist At Rest
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Pugilist At Rest written by Thom Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Night Train
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Night Train written by Thom Jones and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Fiction categories.
A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by "virtuoso of the short story" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones. This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells, would-be do-gooders whose human frailties usually get the better of them. Some are lovable, others are not, but each has an indelible and irresistible voice. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, devoted doctors, strung-out advertising writers, pill poppers and veterans of the psych ward, and an unforgettable adolescent DJ radio host, among others. The stories here are excursions into a unique world that veers between abject desperation and fleeting transcendence. Perhaps no other writer in recent memory could encapsulate in such short spaces the profound and the devastating, the poignant and the hallucinatory, with such an exquisite balance of darkness and light. Jones's fiction reveals again and again the resilience and grace of characters who refuse to succumb. In stories that can at once delight us with their wicked humor and sting us with their affecting pathos, Night Train perfectly captures the essence of this iconic American master, showcasing in a single collection the breadth of power of his inimitable fiction.
Sonny Liston Was A Friend Of Mine
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2009-11-29
Sonny Liston Was A Friend Of Mine written by Thom Jones and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-29 with Fiction categories.
The author's world encompasses dilapidated fight arenas, state mental hospitals & chaotic emergency rooms. The inhabitants are his brilliantly etched characters, who battle desperately against fate in a game of life they cannot win but dare not lose. As we approach the end of the century & the millennium, no one writes better or more vividly than Jones does about the personal, private apocalypses we all face in our darkest moments. In one story, a Vietnam vet, a Recon Marine, swims alone across the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, & the Bosporus to maintain "the edge" that kept him alive in wartime - & that is all he now has left. In another, a brilliant doctor verges on a breakdown. In the title story, a young amateur fighter stoically endures repetitive beatings because he knows the world of boxing shields & protects him from the even crueler world outside of the ring. A number of these stories have appeared in different forms in the New Yorker, Playboy, & Esquire.
The Pugilist At Rest
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 1993
The Pugilist At Rest written by Thom Jones and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
An anthology of stories tackles such subjects as the combat zones of Vietnam, an alcoholic former boxer, and adultery
Rust And Bone
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Author : Craig Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-06-28
Rust And Bone written by Craig Davidson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Rust and Bone conjures a savage world of prizefighters, gamblers and sex addicts; dogs fight to the death and bare-knuckled men fight for survival on the most extreme margins. And yet these gritty stories are tempered by gentleness, the quiet understanding in the most intimate relationships. A whale trainer’s accident, a boy’s life endangered – where human vulnerability is so close to the surface, the humanity of these characters heralds redemption and hope.
Cold Snap
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Author : Thom Jones
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Cold Snap written by Thom Jones and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Fiction categories.
Following his celebrated debut collection, The Pugilist at Rest, National Book Award nominee Thom Jones delivers a lacerating collection of stories that plunges us once again into an edgy, adrenalized world of desire, mania, and rage. In ten new stories, Jones introduces us to hard-luck fighters steeling themselves for battles they've already lost, doctors who fall in love with their illnesses, and a strung-out advertising writer who uses the hand of the devil to do the work of God. At the end of the day, the only ones still standing have gone head-to-head with the world's brutality--and remain ready, hopelessly potent yet irreversibly doomed, to battle all over again. Thom Jones has a wicked appetite for existential calamity and unflagging humor in its presence; his writing is mesmerizing, sometimes fevered, and impossible to put down. Cold Snap resoundingly confirms what thousands already know: Thom Jones is here to stay.
Drifting House
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Author : Krys Lee
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-01-17
Drifting House written by Krys Lee and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-17 with Fiction categories.
A haunting and unforgettable debut spanning the last seventy years of Korean history, including the BBC Short Story Prize shortlisted story 'The Goose Father'. Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, Krys Lee's haunting debut story collection Drifting House weaves together intricate tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in 'A Temporary Marriage' who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped daughter to the makeshift family in 'At the Edge of the World' which is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door.