Lark And Termite
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Lark And Termite
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
Lark And Termite written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Fiction categories.
At the centre of this unforgettable novel are two chidlren: Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War. As the story shifts through time from West Virginia to Korea the mystery of Lola and Nonie's relationship slowly unravels, as does the story of Lark's hopes for herself and Termite, and her own desire for the personal history she has been denied. The result is a rich and rewarding novel about the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
Lark Termite
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language : sv
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Release Date : 2011
Lark Termite written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Quiet Dell
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Quiet Dell written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Fiction categories.
A Story of Love, Murder and Obsession Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is thrilled when Harry Powers asks her to marry him, and agrees to travel with him to West Virginia. She and her children are never seen alive again. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, is sent to cover their disappearance. Obsessed with trying to find out what happened to the family, her investigations lead deeper into the case, uncovering the terrifying truth behind the tragedy. ‘Extraordinary’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ Sunday Times
Fast Lanes
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-02
Fast Lanes written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-02 with Fiction categories.
From one of our most accomplished writers: a short story collection that presents a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect. "A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range." —Ian McEwan, New York Times bestselling author of Atonement and Lessons Three stories are collected in this edition for the first time: in "Alma," and adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother; "Counting" traces the history of a dommed love affair; and "Callie" evokes memories of the haunting death of a child in 1920's West Virginia. Along with the original seven stories from Fast Lanes—each told in extraordinary first person narratives that have been hailed by critics as virtuoso performances—these incandescent portraits offer windows into the lives of an entire generation of Americans, demonstrating again and again why Jayne Anne Phillips remains one of our most powerful writers.
Lark And Termite
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Lark And Termite written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel (The New York Times) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all. Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us deep into the hearts and thoughts of Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, who is filled with radiance. We are also with Corporal Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark’s dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola’s love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.
Bitter In The Mouth
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Author : Monique Truong
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-04-30
Bitter In The Mouth written by Monique Truong and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy and a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Salvage The Bones
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Author : Jesmyn Ward
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Salvage The Bones written by Jesmyn Ward and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with African American children categories.
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.
Black Tickets
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Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 1989
Black Tickets written by Jayne Anne Phillips and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with American fiction categories.
With this brilliant collection of short stories, Jayne Anne Phillips immediately established herself as one of the most gifted young writers of her generation. Resonating with the undeniable power of myth, these tales of initiation and betrayal focus on an astonishing gallery of characters: a rootless young woman confronts her divorced parents, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves a series of foster homes for the bleak and compelling world of two drug addicts, a mass murderer recites a hypnotic monologue of obsession and alienation. In this, her fictional debut, Jayne Anne Phillips paints an unforgettable portrait of the men and women who, though stranded on the dark side fo the American dream, continue to seach for love and redemption.
Silver Sparrow
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Author : Tayari Jones
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Silver Sparrow written by Tayari Jones 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 2020-02-19 with Fiction categories.
A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American Marriage AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE CHRISTMAS GIFT LISTING A GUARDIAN 'BEST BOOK OF 2020 TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS' A BOOKSELLER SMALL PUBLISHERS 2020 TOP 20 A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 according to The Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian 'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.' SECRETS Dana and Chaurisse are sisters, bound together by the life-changing secret of their father's double life. LIES Only one of them knows the truth. When they do finally meet and form a friendship, the fragile balance of ignorance and silence that has kept James' secrets safe for so long threatens to explode. HOPE This soulful story of friendship and sisterhood paints an unforgettable picture of the messy knots that bind families together, from the prize-winning author of An American Marriage.
How To Escape From A Leper Colony
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Author : Tiphanie Yanique
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2012-08-07
How To Escape From A Leper Colony written by Tiphanie Yanique and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Fiction categories.
An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.