One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses
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One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: McSweeney's
Release Date : 2016-08-09
One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses written by Lucy Corin and has been published by McSweeney's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Fiction categories.
Lucy Corin's "eye popping, enlightening read" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback. At the heart of Lucy Corin’s dazzling collection are one hundred apocalypses: visions of loss and destruction, vexation and crisis, revelation and revolution, sometimes only a few lines long. In these haunting and wickedly funny stories, an apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but they all expose the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate. In three longer stories, contemporary American life is playfully, if disturbingly, distorted: the rite of passage for adolescent girls involves choosing the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; California burns to the ground while, on the east coast, life carries on; and a soldier returns home broke from war to encounter a witch who extends a dangerous offer. At once mournful and explosively energetic, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is "deeply rooted in the politics and upheaval of our times" (Lambda Literary).
One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
Release Date : 2015-10-13
One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses written by Lucy Corin and has been published by McSweeneys Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Fiction categories.
Lucy Corin's dazzling new collection is powered by one hundred apocalypses: a series of short stories, many only a few lines, that illuminate moments of vexation and crisis, revelations and revolutions. An apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but what it exposes is the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate.
The Swank Hotel
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
The Swank Hotel written by Lucy Corin and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Fiction categories.
A stunningly ambitious, prescient novel about madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdown At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible, salary-backed, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable, something impossible, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. The story that swirls around Em moves through several perspectives and voices. There is Frank, the tart-tongued, failing manager at her office; Jack, the man with whom Frank has had a love affair for decades; Em and Ad’s eccentric parents, who live in a house that is perpetually being built; and Tasio, the young man from Chiapas who works for them and falls in love with Ad. Through them Corin portrays porousness and breakdown in individuals and families, in economies and political systems, in architecture, technology, and even in language itself. The Swank Hotel is an acrobatic, unforgettable, surreal, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America.
Revelation
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language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Revelation written by and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Bibles categories.
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Tenth Of December
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Author : George Saunders
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-03
Tenth Of December written by George Saunders 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 2013-01-03 with Fiction categories.
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
The End
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Author : Katie Goh
language : en
Publisher: Inklings
Release Date : 2021-10-07
The End written by Katie Goh and has been published by Inklings this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Apocalypse in literature categories.
Apocalypse Of Abraham
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Author : G. H. Box
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-16
Apocalypse Of Abraham written by G. H. Box and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Religion categories.
Everyday Psychokillers
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2004
Everyday Psychokillers written by Lucy Corin and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
InEveryday Psychokillersspectacular violence is the idiom of everyday life, a lurid extravaganza in which all those around the narrator seem vicarious participants. And at its center are the interchangeable young girls, thrilling to know themselves the object of so much desire and terror. The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of her regard come a Ted Bundy reject, the God Osiris, a Caribbean slave turned pirate, a circus performer living in a box, broken horses, a Seminole chief in a swamp, and a murderous babysitter. What these preposterously commonplace figures all know is that murder is identity: "Of course what matters really is the psychokiller, what he's done, what he threatens to do. Of course to be the lucky one you have to be abducted in the first place. Without him, you wouldn't exist." Everyday Psychokillersreaches to the edge of the psychoanalytical and jolts the reader back to daily life. The reader becomes the killer, the watcher, the person on the verge, hiding behind an everyday face.
Political Realism In Apocalyptic Times
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Author : Alison McQueen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
Political Realism In Apocalyptic Times written by Alison McQueen 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 2018 with History categories.
Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.
Apocalypse Of The Alien God
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Author : Dylan M. Burns
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-02-19
Apocalypse Of The Alien God written by Dylan M. Burns and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-19 with Religion categories.
In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics ("knowers") frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus's Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of "foreigners" under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.