The Meagre Tarmac
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The Meagre Tarmac
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher: Biblioasis
Release Date : 2011-06-07
The Meagre Tarmac written by Clark Blaise and has been published by Biblioasis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-07 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award "Clark Blaise’s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply – and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise’s fiction is renowned .… The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment."—Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father’s funeral because he was “trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father’s body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate.” It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as “‘a very lonely, very rich, very guilty immigrant.’” And in between is a cluster of remarkable characters, incensed by the conflict between personal desire and responsibility, who exhaust themselves in pursuit of the miraculous. Fearless and ferociously intelligent, these stories are vintage Blaise, whose outsider’s view of the changing heart of America has always been ruthless and moving and tender.
The Meagre Tarmac
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Release Date : 2011
The Meagre Tarmac written by Clark Blaise and has been published by Soft Skull Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.
Bearers Of Risk
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Author : Neta Gordon
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2022-04-15
Bearers Of Risk written by Neta Gordon and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the genre uses the premise of the marginal to elevate recuperative masculinity politics and nostalgia for traditional patriarchy. Despite the scholarly tendency to link marginal genres and marginalized voices, features of the CanLit infrastructure – including genre criticism and literary prize culture – are complicit in normalizing hegemonic masculinity and the Settler colonial project. Bearers of Risk examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early twenty-first-century short story cycle as an illustration of post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics, exposing the tendency to position White, heteronormative men’s viewpoints as objective. Neta Gordon introduces the civil bearer of risk, a figure who comprehends the position of men as being marked by or for failure, and who reasserts masculine authority as civil duty towards community. This book looks at contemporary experimental short story cycles, debut cycles by ethnically minoritized and immigrant writers, and cycles unified by setting, whether suburban, urban, or rural. Bearers of Risk unsettles popular notions of the inherent outsider status of the short story cycle while also scrutinizing expressions of recuperative masculinity politics through which men assert their right to reclaim the centre.
Love And Happiness In The Empires Of The Past The Present And The Future
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Author : Martin Avery
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-12-06
Love And Happiness In The Empires Of The Past The Present And The Future written by Martin Avery and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Love affairs in England, America, and China, or the empires of the past, the present, and the future, revisited by one man in search of love and happiness.
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works
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Author : Christopher Riches
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-29
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works written by Christopher Riches and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with True Crime categories.
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Hollywood North
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Author : Michael Libling
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Hollywood North written by Michael Libling and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Fiction categories.
“Libling’s assured, quietly menacing debut [is] based on his World Fantasy Award–nominated novella of the same title. . . . Fans of Stand by Me and the like will find much to enjoy.” —Publishers Weekly It’s the 1960s, and Gus Berry is coming of age in Trenton, a small town on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The place isn’t known for much—unless you count the menacing stray dogs, plant explosions, plane collisions, and regular drownings. The adults seem to take it all in stride, but Gus can’t shake the feeling of impending doom. His friend Annie Barker doesn’t share Gus’s dark thoughts; she believes in things. So Gus goes about his days, surviving school, trying to live up to his widowed mother’s expectations, and growing increasingly obsessed with movies and TV shows. Indeed, he scripts his life to make it way more exciting and adventurous than it actually is. Gus is clearly a boy who wants things, which makes Jack Levin the perfect friend. He’s a local hero famous for finding stuff : a message in a bottle, a meteorite, a long-lost wedding ring. And when Jack makes his most mysterious discovery yet, Gus and Annie are drawn with him into an investigation of Trenton’s past. Guided by their curiosity, they soon uncover a malignant darkness behind the town’s senseless tragedies. In Hollywood North, World Fantasy Award–nominated author Michael Libling “spins a tale of movies and memories, nightmares and nostalgia, with such a frightening secret at its core, that you’ll understand why, even though you can go home again, you might end up wishing you didn’t” (Ian Rogers, author of Every House Is Haunted). “[A] fine first novel . . . Bradbury might have sketched out this mode in the darker parts of Dandelion Wine and the entirety of Something Wicked This Way Comes, but contemporary authors such as Libling are showing us refinements of sensibility and sense of wonder that the old Waukeganian never dreamed of.” —Locus
Britannica Book Of The Year 2012
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Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
language : en
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Britannica Book Of The Year 2012 written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and has been published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Britannica Book of the Year 2012 provides a valuable viewpoint of the people and events that shaped the year and serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world. It is an accurate and comprehensive reference that you will reach for again and again.
A History Of Canadian Fiction
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Author : David Staines
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-05
A History Of Canadian Fiction written by David Staines and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history.
Lunar Attractions
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-01-30
Lunar Attractions written by Clark Blaise and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with Fiction categories.
"Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down."--The New York Times Book Review First published in 1979, Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, a whimsical boy from the Florida backwoods whose shocking sexual awakening propels him into the world of murder and extortion that roils beneath the surface of 1950s America.
The Inspector Lynley Collection Books 1 4
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Author : Elizabeth George
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-17
The Inspector Lynley Collection Books 1 4 written by Elizabeth George and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-17 with Fiction categories.
In the very first Inspector Lynley novel, A GREAT DELIVERANCE, Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve a gruesome murder where they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the façade of the peaceful Yorkshire village. In PAYMENT IN BLOOD, Inspector Lynley faces the most testing case of his career in an isolated Scottish mansion where a famous playwright is savagely murdered - one of the suspects is Lady Helen Clyde, the woman Lynley loves. WELL SCHOOLED IN MURDER is set in an old and distinguished public school. The body of a brilliant young pupil is discovered in a country churchyard. Hampered by the code of honour and loyalty that prevail, Inspector Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers discover within the confines of that privileged community a culture of cruelty that stretches back across the generations. In A SUITABLE VENGEANCE, Inspector Lynley investigation into the brutal murder of a local journalist tears apart powerful ties of love and friendship, shattering the tranquillity of the picturesque Cornish community and exposing a long-buried family secret. Its consequences irrevocably alter the course of Thomas Lynley's life.