Four Novellas
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The Practical Heart
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Author : Allan Gurganus
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-09-01
The Practical Heart written by Allan Gurganus and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Fiction categories.
A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times). Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables--rich in event, comedy, experience--surge with the force of history's headlines versus sidestreet human fortitude. Improbable heroes and heroines spiral outward from Gurganus's familiar Carolina terrain. Each fires into a wild and differing direction, all in quest of some fantasy that's practically impossible: --An impoverished immigrant has her portrait painted (or not) by John Singer Sargent. --A young man's devotion to saving eighteenth-century homes—and their odd lingering ghosts—helps him find unlikely ways to renovate his own mortality. --A pillar of the community becomes, over the course of one cartoon matinee, its pariah. --A beloved, transfixingly homely father shows his village and his only son a decency stronger than race, humiliation, or even death itself. These characters' quixotic missions prove mysterious, often even to themselves. Their legacies are not easily deciphered. And yet, their most impractical wishes soon become the heartiest facts about each. They manage to wrest battle-courage from everyday indecision. Out of superstition and convention, they lift certainty. They each find a wealth of consoling truths banked--immortal--in the all-too-human heart. Allan Gurganus's great powers--announced more than a decade ago by Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--here achieve a yearning exuberance worthy of a new Whitman. These leaps of sexual longing, empathy, and faith become a major new gift from this essential fablemaker.
The End Of Tragedy
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Author : Rachel Ingalls
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1989
The End Of Tragedy written by Rachel Ingalls and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Short stories categories.
In these four novellas, the author of Mrs. Caliban continues to work the fictional territory she has made her own. Each of the four stories is highlighted by some twist of horror.
Four Novellas
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Author : Natalia Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Four Novellas written by Natalia Ginzburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Pearlkillers
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Author : Rachel Ingalls
language : en
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Release Date : 1988-09
The Pearlkillers written by Rachel Ingalls and has been published by Touchstone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09 with Fiction categories.
These four bewitching novellas have the imaginative power and spellbinding inventiveness readers expect from the author whose Mrs. Caliban was named one of the 20 best postwar American novels by the British Book Marketing Council.
Different Seasons
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Author : Stephen King
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Different Seasons written by Stephen King 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 2016-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
Four Novellas
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Author : Lavie Tidhar
language : en
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Four Novellas written by Lavie Tidhar and has been published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Fiction categories.
“Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” – Library Journal A nun enters a poker tournament as she wrestles with her faith in God; a boy travels across a mysterious, cloud-covered planet in search of a mythical space port; in Nazi-occupied London a screenwriter searches for an old flame with deadly consequences; three wise men from the East travel to Judea to give a newborn baby an unexpected power. Collected for the first time in one volume, this omnibus edition from World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar gathers four mind-bending novellas: The Big Blind, Cloud Permutations, The Vanishing Kind, and Jesus and the Eightfold Path. “Lavie Tidhar is one of the great writers of my generation.” – Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic
Four Novellas
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Author : Allan Young
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001
Four Novellas written by Allan Young and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
A shy, pious woman finds inspiration at a religious singing convention in the mountains. A teenage girl, sent to live with her grandparents following the death of her mother, expects to be lonely, bored and sad, but instead makes a host of friends through many adventures. Young western couple who are held hostage—he by the barren hills in which he is forced to live, and she by kidnappers—find love which rescues them both. A man's self-imposed isolation, plus being a victim of his own hatred, result in tragedy at the massive window rock.
Quaternity Four Novellas From The Carpathians
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Author : Maria Rybakova
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-09-21
Quaternity Four Novellas From The Carpathians written by Maria Rybakova and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Fiction categories.
Four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region: ● An American expat in Europe appropriates the identity of a Romanian orphan in her desperate search for love. ● A dictator's daughter learns, while on a study trip to France, that her parents have been overthrown and are about to be executed. ● A minor character from a novel confronts her own insignificance. A wife announces to her husband of forty years that she's just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Collected Short Stories And Four Novellas
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Author : Elizabeth Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008
Collected Short Stories And Four Novellas written by Elizabeth Greenwood and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Elizabeth Greenwood studied Sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art, and in Florence and Rome. She had a classical education, preferring Greek to Latin for the richness of its vocabulary and her sculpture with its references to Greek mythology reflects this predilection. She also writes Poetry. Apart from poetry, she enjoys producing emblematic fiction based on Mary Poppins' philosophical song "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down", thus fulfilling the writer's task as an entertainer cum moralist. Both the poetical and the modelling activities date from early childhood. Although these were largely ignored, she was fortunate in having been born into a family where close relatives had universal minds, uniting a passion for literature with a keen interest in Science (of Space especially), Politics and the Cinema. In latter years, to counteract the tendency to create works of the imagination, she has applied herself to the discipline of academic works in the field of Religion, i.e. the Bible, with particular regard to the Dead Sea discoveries, no well-documented. A successful breeder and trainer of horses, she has campaigned ceaselessly for higher education in Equine Studies, on the lines devised in America where Hippology has been elevated to university status, thus producing educated riders and saving the horse a lot of unnecessary suffering, She considers horses to be regulators and keepers of conscience, teaching stoical wisdom in the exercise of man's power over life and death.
The Liar S Wife
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Author : Mary Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2014-08-05
The Liar S Wife written by Mary Gordon and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Fiction categories.
The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title story, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in the Midwest. These narratives dazzle on the surface with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn, Mary Gordon reveals in her characters’ interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it’s hard to believe they fit into novella-size packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger experience of Gordon’s literary mastery and human sympathy. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.