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Drowning Lessons
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Author : Peter Selgin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Drowning Lessons written by Peter Selgin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Fiction categories.
The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it." With empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy waters of human relationships. In "Swimming" an avid swimmer fights the stasis in his marriage by prodding his out-of-shape but contented wife to take up the sport—with near-disastrous results. A pond is the setting of "The Wolf House," which tells of the reunion and dissolution of a group of high school friends brought together for a funeral. "The Sinking Ship Man" chronicles a day in the life of an African American caretaker in charge of the only remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster. In "El Malecón" a toothless old Dominican tries to recapture his lost dignity by "borrowing" a shiny Cadillac convertible and aiming it down the coastal highway toward his childhood village. In "The Sea Cure" two travelers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula confront death in the form of a mysterious woman living in an abandoned beachfront apartment complex. In all thirteen tales in Drowning Lessons, Selgin exhibits a keen eye for the forces that push people toward—and sometimes beyond—their very human limits, forces as intrinsic, elemental, and elusive as the liquid that makes up two-thirds of their bodies. These stories remind us that of all bodies of water, none is deeper or more dangerous than our own.
Drowning Lessons
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Author : Jane Shemilt
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Drowning Lessons written by Jane Shemilt and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Kidnapping categories.
The press conference, one year ago Our home is a crime scene now. I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in which I kissed Sam goodbye. Then he'd belonged only to us. Now his image will be shared with the world. We should be grateful. 'Our son . . . Sam . . . 'My eyes fill with tears, the writing on the paper blurs. 'Someone took him. Please help us . . .' I back away from the microphone, the paper falls form my hands. The anniversary The Jordan family thought they would return from their gap year abroad enriched, better people, a closer family. Not minus one child. A year on, Emma remains haunted by the image of that empty cot, thousands of miles away, the chasm between her and the rest of the family growing with each day that Sam remains missing. Is her son still out there? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled?
Drowning Lessons
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Author : Maureen Scott Harris
language : en
Publisher: Pedlar Books
Release Date : 2004
Drowning Lessons written by Maureen Scott Harris and has been published by Pedlar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Canadian poetry categories.
Winner of the 2005 Trillium Award for Poetry -- Because the poems in Drowning Lessons have been written over an extended period of time - and not with any particular idea in mind - I find it difficult to describe how or why they belong together. Reading through the MS I see certain recurrences, perhaps obsessions. I think the poems are haunted by absence, loss, things forgotten or missing, a certain experience of insubstantiality. Many of them take place underwater, both literally and figuratively. There's a great deal of drowning in these poems, though in only three instances is it a literal drowning I'm writing about. The poems seem often expressions of grief, but a grief that is (perhaps) hidden or unconscious, that doesn't know its own name. It's as if something presses forward to be seen or expressed, but does not necessarily make itself fully visible. -- I suppose it's accurate to say that I think of this collection as a form of autobiography (though perhaps not an entirely trustworthy one). (And on second thought, is any autobiography entirely trustworthy?) Certainly memory and the past and the way things not dealt with persist in returning for attention are some of the experiences underlying the book. As is the way consciousness moves and shifts. -Maureen Scott Harris
Drowning Lessons
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Author : Rachel Neuburger Reynolds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Drowning Lessons written by Rachel Neuburger Reynolds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with categories.
Drowning Lessons
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Author : Rachel Neuburger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Drowning Lessons written by Rachel Neuburger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with categories.
Ivy And Abe
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Author : Elizabeth Enfield
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Ivy And Abe written by Elizabeth Enfield and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Fiction categories.
'If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read' Take a Break _________ Ivy is always destined to meet Abe. But when is the RIGHT time? At school, as a free spirit in her twenties or when she is married . . . to someone else? Perhaps they meet when she is a widow in her sixties? Or maybe he remains a stranger, glimpsed only fleetingly. Ivy and Abe are soulmates. But what if they meet at the WRONG time, and fate and circumstance stand in Ivy's way? Told over Ivy's lifetime, across a series of alternate realities, Ivy & Abe is a story for anyone who has ever wondered 'what if?' _________ 'Think 'Sliding Doors' meets One Day and wonder if there's a right person for everyone or just a right time' Red 'An epic love story' Araminta Hall
The Drowning Lesson
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Author : Jane Shemilt
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-24
The Drowning Lesson written by Jane Shemilt and has been published by Penguin 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 chilling, gripping thriller from the author of the stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter 'It's our son, Sam . . . someone took him. Please help us' Emma hoped that she and her family would return from their year abroad closer, with memories to last a lifetime. Instead, they returned minus one child. A year on, Emma is haunted by their son's disappearance, and feels further than ever from her husband. Is their child still out there somewhere? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled? And, if the truth does come to light, will Emma's family be healed - or wrenched even further apart?
The Reformed Presbyterian And Covenanter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The Reformed Presbyterian And Covenanter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Life Goes To The Movies
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Author : Peter Selgin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Life Goes To The Movies written by Peter Selgin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
A madcap romp of friendship, movie-making, insanity and salvation. Humorous and heartrending, brilliantly executed.
Your First Page First Pages And What They Tell Us About The Pages That Follow Them
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Author : Peter Selgin
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Your First Page First Pages And What They Tell Us About The Pages That Follow Them written by Peter Selgin and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that practically everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page. Those first 300 or so words function like canaries in coal mines, forecasting success or predicting trouble. They establish the crucial bond between writer and reader, setting them off together on a path toward the heart or climax of a story—or they fail to do so. From first pages we stand to learn most of what we need to know to succeed as authors. This new workshop and classroom edition of Your First Page has been revised to better fit the needs of creative writing classrooms and workshops.