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Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker Publisher: Dufour Editions ISBN: 0802360459 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
A woman recalls the freedom and power of childhood games; a surprise anniversary party goes awry when the husband is hospitalized and the fault lines and strengths of a family are laid bare; a teacher rediscovers her calling amidst unthinkable tragedy; a lonely woman recognizes her responsibility to her sister's troubled life-in this collection of stories the prose and passion of life are brought together in ways that show both the complexity and the simplicity of living. Told against a Midwest background, they focus mainly on women's experiences, yet nonetheless reflect universal conditions. This is what makes Karen Gettert Shoemaker's style so affecting and her stories so appealing. These stories show the importance of knowing the preciousness of this life, whatever form it takes. These are simple stories, told with a grace and elegance that belies their joyful art and craft. "Crafted with care and grace. This book establishes Shoemaker as a talented chronicler of rural life and domestic gestures, with an eye for what's funny in grief, and what's sad in humor."-Publishers Weekly "Short stories at their finest can be the ultimate in fiction: compressed gems that in a few words can create memorable people and emotions out of thin air. Shoemaker's first collection contains such, and readers will laugh and cry at her spare portrayals of loss and friendship... . This is a powerful and valuable collection."-Library Journal
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker Publisher: Dufour Editions ISBN: 0802360459 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
A woman recalls the freedom and power of childhood games; a surprise anniversary party goes awry when the husband is hospitalized and the fault lines and strengths of a family are laid bare; a teacher rediscovers her calling amidst unthinkable tragedy; a lonely woman recognizes her responsibility to her sister's troubled life-in this collection of stories the prose and passion of life are brought together in ways that show both the complexity and the simplicity of living. Told against a Midwest background, they focus mainly on women's experiences, yet nonetheless reflect universal conditions. This is what makes Karen Gettert Shoemaker's style so affecting and her stories so appealing. These stories show the importance of knowing the preciousness of this life, whatever form it takes. These are simple stories, told with a grace and elegance that belies their joyful art and craft. "Crafted with care and grace. This book establishes Shoemaker as a talented chronicler of rural life and domestic gestures, with an eye for what's funny in grief, and what's sad in humor."-Publishers Weekly "Short stories at their finest can be the ultimate in fiction: compressed gems that in a few words can create memorable people and emotions out of thin air. Shoemaker's first collection contains such, and readers will laugh and cry at her spare portrayals of loss and friendship... . This is a powerful and valuable collection."-Library Journal
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
These stories capture the small moments in life, a passing glance of a child's smile, the night sounds of crickets or clocks, and celebrates them, showing the importance of the preciousness of life, in whatever form it takes.
Author: Frank Gallo Publisher: Innovative Kids ISBN: 9781584760658 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Each double-page spread includes clues, a tab to pull to uncover a picture of the correct animal making the sound, and a flap to lift to uncover more facts about that animal.
Author: Sam Taplin Publisher: ISBN: 9781805318170 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the magic of the night in this enchanting sound book. Little children will love listening to sleeping cats purring, owls twit-twooing and bats squeaking when they press the sound buttons on the pages of this beautifully illustrated book. There's a simple story to read aloud, holes to peek through and fingertrails to explore, too.
Author: Ray Bradbury Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062242075 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...
Author: Rubem Fonseca Publisher: Open Letter Books ISBN: 193482402X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
Book Description
The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Author: Frank Gallo
Author: Sam Taplin
Author: Bill
Author: Ray Bradbury
Author: Lang Elliott
Author: Rosemary Wells
Author: Joseph McElroy
Author: Rubem Fonseca