Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN: 9781934781869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Presents a collection of stories from around the world, including five stories set in Kenya.

Author: Chris Ware
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932416084
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Presents an anthology of contemporary comics by such cartoonists as Richard McGuire, Mark Newgarden, Lynda Barry, and Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, along with a few vintage comics.

Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Author: Nyuol Lueth Tong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938073748
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There Is a Country collects eight engrossing pieces by South Sudanese authors--the first collection of its kind, from the youngest country in the world. Wrestling with a history marked by war and displacement, the work here presents a fresh and necessary account of an emerging nation, past and present. In vivid, gripping prose, There Is a Country's stories explore youth and love, life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer.

Author: Chris Adrian
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.

Author: Claire Boyle
Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN: 9781952119057
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Items in container: Main book -- Aleatory fiction [booklet] -- Voicemails to the editor -- Crypto acoustic auditory non-hallucatination -- Audio tours of your home -- Get on board -- KidzWorks! -- Douteflower -- ClearVoice -- Speculation, N. -- Clinical judgment.

Author: Josephine Rowe
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
ISBN: 9781938073861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A latest quarterly anthology by the two-time National Magazine Award-winning literary journal features entries by forefront and up-and-coming writers, as well as an eccentric design.

Author: Claire Boyle
Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN: 9781952119231
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :

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McSweeney's 65: Plundered spans the Americas, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas, and considers the violence that shaped it. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and, crucially, defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples? Guest-edited by acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli, with Heather Cleary, Issue 65 brings together stories of stolen artifacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations. Including contributors from Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and more, Plundered is a panoramic portrait of a hemisphere on fire. Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly A key barometer of the literary climate.-The New York Times McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241143438
Category : Experimental fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This title presents a new compilation of writings from the popular literary journal, which began in 1998 as a small literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines.