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The Unfinished Novel And Other Stories
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Author : Valerie Martin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-11-18
The Unfinished Novel And Other Stories written by Valerie Martin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-18 with Fiction categories.
'Spellbinding' NEW YORK TIMES 'Entrancingly good' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A narrative gift that can raise the hairs at the top of the spine' SUNDAY TIMES In the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse. A painter who owes his small success to a man he despises, discovers that his passivity has cost him the love that might have set him free. An actress struggles with the guilt she still feels twenty years after an affair with a young actor whose promise mysteriously vaporized after a performance of Hamlet. A starving artist inhabits a bleak netherworld, where pride is a luxury no one can afford. A writer of modest talents encounters the old love who once betrayed him; now she repels him, yet the unfinished novel she leaves in his hands may surpass anything he could ever produce himself. The last stories in the collection take us to Rome and a room with a limited view, and to a Brooklyn studio where a window opens onto limitless space. In the Eternal City an American poet is forced to choose between her lover, a dancer who has outraged academe, and a world so alien it takes her voice away. In the final story, a print maker, who has reached a certain age, enters so deeply into the magical world of her imagination that she can never find her way back.
The Unfinished World And Other Stories
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Author : Amber Sparks
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2016-01-25
The Unfinished World And Other Stories written by Amber Sparks and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-25 with Fiction categories.
A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative short stories from “one of contemporary fiction’s true mad scientists” (Necessary Fiction). In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, Amber Sparks’s dazzling new collection bursts forth with stories that render the apocalyptic and otherworldly hauntingly familiar. In “The Cemetery for Lost Faces,” two orphans translate their grief into taxidermy, artfully arresting the passage of time. The anchoring novella, “The Unfinished World,” unfurls a surprising love story between a free and adventurous young woman and a dashing filmmaker burdened by a mysterious family. Sparks’s stories—populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors—form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and deeply moving, The Unfinished World and Other Stories heralds the arrival of a major writer and illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary.
Unfinished And Other Stories
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Author : Frank Loproto
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-03-10
Unfinished And Other Stories written by Frank Loproto and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with categories.
Unfinished and Other Stories collects five tales of the bizarre, each dealing with the aspects of life that hide from the daylight. The short novel Unfinished follows Dylan Nabors on a quest to find his missing girlfriend, Kerry. Dylan follows clues left by Kerry that quickly enmesh him in a mystery involving a murderous ritualistic cult and a popular cosmetics enterprise that takes him on a perilous journey across the country to a series of small towns that share a common secret. In each location as Dylan seeks to find Kerry he learns a little more about what it means to strive for perfection in an imperfect world, and that by unravelling the confounding facts surrounding her disappearance he is being led ever closer to the borderline of hell, which is much closer to home than he suspected. In the accompanying stories, the reader is introduced to a cat with an unusual heritage; a component of nature that tempts people to look beyond the natural world; a demon hunter who learns that evil wears many faces; and a man who visits a small town seeking a respite from his life and who nearly finds himself separated from his soul. Each story invites us to look beneath the surface of what we see in our everyday lives to the realm of the things we can't see but that are always but a heartbeat away and that might at any moment change the course of our lives forever.
An Unfinished Story
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Author : Boo Walker
language : en
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Release Date : 2020
An Unfinished Story written by Boo Walker and has been published by Lake Union Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Authors categories.
As part of an online project on short stories, East of the Web presents the full text of "An Unfinished Story." This short story was written by the American author William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), whose pseudonym was O. Henry.
The Unfinished Angel
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Author : Sharon Creech
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-09-22
The Unfinished Angel written by Sharon Creech and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech crafts a truly endearing story, one that is imbued with happiness, wonder, and an appreciation for all the little things that make life big. With beautiful, fresh new cover art, this is a gem of a book. In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village in the Swiss Alps, lives one very unlikely angel—one that is still awaiting her instructions from the angel-training center. What happens to an angel who doesn't know her mission? She floats and swishes from high above, watching the crazy things that "peoples" say and do. But when a zany American girl named Zola arrives in town and invades the Casa Rosa, dogs start arfing, figs start flying through the air, lost orphans wander in, and the village becomes anything but quiet. And as Zola and the angel work together to rescue the orphans, they each begin to realize their purpose and learn that there is magic in the most ordinary acts of kindness.
Come Along With Me
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Author : Shirley Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-26
Come Along With Me written by Shirley Jackson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Fiction categories.
A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood And Other Stories
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1998
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood And Other Stories written by Charles Dickens and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Drugs, sexual obsession and a possible murder are the themes of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Also contained in this collection are lesser-known stories and sketeches that deal with subjects as diverse as murder, guilt and childhood.
The Legend Of Gold And Other Stories
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Author : Jun Ishikawa
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1998-10-01
The Legend Of Gold And Other Stories written by Jun Ishikawa and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The four stories and novella translated in this volume represent the best short fiction by Ishikawa Jun (1899-1987), one of the most important modernist writers to appear on the Japanese literary stage during the years before and after World War II. Throughout his career, Ishikawa resisted the tide of popular opinion to address issues of political and artistic significance and thereby paved the way for a generation of Japanese internationalists and experimentalists, including Abe Kobo and Oe Kenzaburo. Highly acclaimed and respected in Japan, Ishikawa remains little known in the West-in part because of the tendency of Western critics and readers of Japanese literature to focus on writers concerned with aesthetic issues. Combining a strong interest in politics with a brilliant use of modernist techniques, Ishikawa's work defies easy categorization. Banned in 1938, "Mars' Song" has been called the finest example of anti-war fiction written during Japan's march to war in China and the Pacific. In it Ishikawa denounces the chorus of jingoism that swept Japan, and via a metafictional tale within a tale, he warns against the suicidal destruction to which complicity in warmongering will lead. The allegorical "Moon Gems," written in the spring of 1945, further explores the tenuous position of the writer moving against the current in a country not only still at war but very near defeat. In "The Legend of Gold" and "The Jesus of the Ruins," both from 1946, Japan has been reduced to a charred wasteland yet Ishikawa envisions destruction as fertile ground for rebirth and resurrection. Finally, the semi-surrealistic novella The Raptor plumbs the meanings and possibilities of peace in the post-Occupation era. William Tyler's eminently readable translations are faithfully expressive of stylistic and tonal nuances in the original works. In a perceptive introduction and the critical essays that follow, Tyler emphasizes Ishikawa's importance as an anti-establishment--even "resistance"--writer and argues that the writer's political iconoclasm goes hand-in-hand with the modanizumu of his literary experimentation. The Legend of Gold will be of tremendous importance in enlarging a Western understanding of the development of the writer's role as social critic and the evolution of the modernist movement in postwar Japan.
Kill Marguerite And Other Stories
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Author : Megan Milks
language : en
Publisher: Emergency Press
Release Date : 2014-03-11
Kill Marguerite And Other Stories written by Megan Milks and has been published by Emergency Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Fiction categories.
Kill Marguerite and Other Stories collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily mongrelized: the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling, sometimes violent, changes in gender, physiology, and even species, occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a man’s thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque, though, these fictions are deeply engaged, both critically and politically, with the ways that social power operates on, and through, queer bodies.
That Other World
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-25
That Other World written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Electronic books categories.
The foundational text for the acclaimed New York Times and international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation's foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet's death and announces the critic's secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov's enchanters--Humbert--is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past. In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov's characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov's experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader's quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.