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All Stories Are True
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Author : John Edgar Wideman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1993
All Stories Are True written by John Edgar Wideman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. "(Wideman is) one of our very finest writers, period".--New Republic.
All Stories Are True
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Author : Tracie Church Guzzio
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-05-17
All Stories Are True written by Tracie Church Guzzio and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes—history, myth, and trauma—throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American experience that runs counter to mainstream interpretations, using history and myth to confront and then heal the trauma caused by slavery and racism. Wideman's work intentionally blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography, myth and history, particularly as that history relates to African American experience in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fusion of fiction, national history, and Wideman's personal life is characteristic of his style, which—due to its complexity and smudging of genre distinctions—has presented analytic difficulties for literary scholars. Despite winning the PEN/Faulkner award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), Wideman remains under-studied. Of particular value is Guzzio's analysis of the many ways in which Wideman alludes to his previous works. This intertextuality allows Wideman to engage his books in direct, intentional dialogue with each other through repeated characters, images, folktales, and songs. In Wideman's challenging of a monolithic view of history and presenting alternative perspectives to it, and his allowing past, present, and future time to remain fluid in the narratives, Guzzio finds an author firm in his notion that all stories and all perspectives have merit.
Back To Moscow
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Author : Guillermo Erades
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Back To Moscow written by Guillermo Erades and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Fiction categories.
The early 2000s, and Martin, an expat student recently arrived in Moscow to write a doctoral thesis on the heroines of Russian literature, needs all the guidance he can get to fathom the mysterious Russian soul. Distracted from his studies by the bright lure of nightclubs, vodka, ready money and real women, his restless explorations of the city lead him to dark and unexpected places . . . 'Powerful . . . An ambitious debut' The Independent on Sunday 'A rich debut. Back to Moscow is a book to get lost in' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals 'The rare novel whose last paragraphs offer up a genuine epiphany, wholly earned and wholly unexpected. An act of magic' Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination
I Know This Much Is True
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Author : Wally Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-03
I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-03 with Fiction categories.
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
The Stories Of John Edgar Wideman
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Author : John Edgar Wideman
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1992
The Stories Of John Edgar Wideman written by John Edgar Wideman and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
Collection of short stories by the author covering the past ten years of his writing.
All Stories Are True Some Actually Happened
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Author : Sheila S. Otto
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10
All Stories Are True Some Actually Happened written by Sheila S. Otto and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In this eclectic collection of stories and art, spiritual director, storyteller,snorkeler Sheila Otto invites readers to look below the surface to find deeper meaning. She uses with provocative commentary and questions, and draws on world spiritual traditions to expand the understanding of everyday experience. She has coined the phrase âsoul snorkelingâ for this probing of unseen areas.The snorkeling gear she provides include photographs that reflect her training in Miksang (a Tibetan word meaning âgood eyeâ) photography. Thought provoking questions guide the reader to look within story or an image for self-understanding. Even if snorkeling is not your sport, you will find good stories and beautiful photographs, stories for all ages and faith traditions; stories to make you smile and stories to make you pause.There is blank space for the readers to insert their own experience and images for the deeper insights. You can dive into this small book, but you are encouraged not to race through it. Soul Snorkeling is a process of watching and following the light and movement below the surface to appreciate its beauty and complexity. Be prepared to be surprised with what you find.
The Things They Carried
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Author : Tim O’Brien
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2015-09-24
The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Fiction categories.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The Story Is True
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Author : Bruce Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Story Is True written by Bruce Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Narration (Rhetoric) categories.
Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them
Not So True Stories And Unreasonable Rhymes
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Author : Carin Berger
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2004-02
Not So True Stories And Unreasonable Rhymes written by Carin Berger and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Awards and honors for "Not So True Stories and Unreasonable Rhymes: Bank Street College, Best Books of the Year.
The Almost Complete Collection Of True Singapore Ghost Stories
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Author : Russell Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Almost Complete Collection Of True Singapore Ghost Stories written by Russell Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Short stories, Singaporean (English) categories.