The Flame Alphabet
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The Flame Alphabet
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-01-05
The Flame Alphabet written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with Fiction categories.
A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighbourhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn't so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition. The Flame Alphabet invites the question: what is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus's position in the first rank of American novelists.
The Flame Alphabet
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-01-17
The Flame Alphabet written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-17 with Fiction categories.
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.
The Age Of Wire And String
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-05-02
The Age Of Wire And String written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Fiction categories.
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations - both comic and disturbing - in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.
Leaving The Sea
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-01-07
Leaving The Sea written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Fiction categories.
By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.
Notable American Women
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Notable American Women written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own reality. On a farm in Ohio, American women led by Jane Dark practice all means of behavior modification in an attempt to attain complete stillness and silence. Witnessing (and subjected to) their cultish actions is one Ben Marcus, whose father, Michael Marcus, may be buried in the back yard, and whose mother, Jane Marcus, enthusiastically condones the use of her son for (generally unsuccessful) breeding purposes, among other things. Inventing his own uses for language, the author Ben Marcus has written a harrowing, hilarious, strangely moving, altogether engrossing work of fiction that will be read and argued over for years to come.
Notes From The Fog
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Notes From The Fog written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Fiction categories.
'I wake up and I have to make the right choice,' he said. Master-stylist Ben Marcus returns with a wonder-cabinet of brain-rearranging stories. From the horrifyingly strange to the deeply touching, each story is a literary masterclass unlikely to leave the reader unchanged. From parent/child relationships thrown agonisingly off kilter, to intensely moving scenarios of dependence and emotional crisis; from left-alone bodies to new scientific frontiers, Ben Marcus is the great chronicler of the contemporary uncanny and the peculiar future. Piece by piece, he takes us apart.
The Underwater Alphabet Book
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Author : Jerry Pallotta
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2016-12-06
The Underwater Alphabet Book written by Jerry Pallotta and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn your ABCs in this aquatic exploration of the coral reef. Best-selling author Jerry Pallotta delivers a fun first concepts book that covers sea creatures from A to Z. From the well-known Angelfish to lesser known Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a all the way to Zebra Pipefish, readers will be introduced to over twenty-six tropical species that live in and around the coral reef. Edward Stewart's detailed and vibrant illustrations bring the reader into the colorful underwater world. Covering habitats to inhabitants, this alphabetical journey is told both with wit and scientific accuracy that makes for a fun and funny read aloud that kids and parents will be eager to dive into.
New American Stories
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Author : Ben Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2015-07-09
New American Stories written by Ben Marcus and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-09 with Fiction categories.
The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the lay of the literary land. From established masters of the form like Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis to neoteric trailblazers such as Rebecca Curtis and Rachel B. Glaser, this collection sees Marcus trying to 'prove that the distinctions we erect between styles and approaches to fiction can be essentially meaningless'. The result is a must-read, must-own volume for readers of literary fiction.
U S Navy Alphabet Book
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Author : Jerry Pallotta
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2016-12-06
U S Navy Alphabet Book written by Jerry Pallotta and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn about the Navy SEALS, aircraft carriers, submarines, and much more. This unique alphabet book also introduces readers to the semaphore, international code flag, and radio alphabets.
Mongrels Or Marvels
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Author : Deborah A. Starr
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-17
Mongrels Or Marvels written by Deborah A. Starr and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection of essays and fiction offers critical insights into Egypt's cosmopolitan past, Jewish-Levantine identities, and the possibilities for cultural integration within Israel and beyond.