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Author: Daniel Curzon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781477104606 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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A THIRD collection of short stories (following The Revolt of the Perverts, 1978, and Human Warmth and Other Stories, 1981) Most of these stories were written before it was possible to publish some things during the Zeitgeist of the past two decades and maybe even still today. This is a literature-may-help-but-maybe-not cry at the end of the millennium. Politically impolite. Dedicated to teachers, children, animals, and ex-Catholics.--Published first in such magazines as The Kenyon Review. Awarded a Certificate of Merit in Writer ́s Digest 2000 S-P Book Awards
Author: Daniel Curzon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781477104606 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
A THIRD collection of short stories (following The Revolt of the Perverts, 1978, and Human Warmth and Other Stories, 1981) Most of these stories were written before it was possible to publish some things during the Zeitgeist of the past two decades and maybe even still today. This is a literature-may-help-but-maybe-not cry at the end of the millennium. Politically impolite. Dedicated to teachers, children, animals, and ex-Catholics.--Published first in such magazines as The Kenyon Review. Awarded a Certificate of Merit in Writer ́s Digest 2000 S-P Book Awards
Author: Natalia Ginzburg Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1628729023 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 129
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In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
Author: Oscar Wilde Publisher: Modernista ISBN: 9180949479 Category : Languages : en Pages : 9
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»The Sphinx Without a Secret« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Author: Miranda July Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743299418 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours. In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly—they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters’ idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141985623 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
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'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
Author: ZZ Packer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781573223782 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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The acclaimed debut short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice in fiction, from multi-award winning author ZZ Packer Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight, ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Fresh, versatile, and captivating, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking and unforgettable collection, sure to stand out among the contemporary canon of fiction.
Author: Michael Bamberg Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027292981 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 279
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Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. Looking back and taking stock, this volume further attempts to begin to deliver answers to the questions (i) What was it that made the original turn to narrative so successful? (ii) What has been accomplished over the last 40 years of narrative inquiry? (iii) What are the future directions for narrative inquiry? The contributions to this volume are deliberately kept short so that the readers can browse through them and get a feel about the diversity of current narrative theorizing and emerging new trends in narrative research. It is the ultimate aim of this edited volume to stir up discussions and dialogue among narrative researchers across these disciplines and to widen and open up the territory of narrative inquiry to new and innovative work.
Author: Nicole Flattery Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635574307 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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"Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny." Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends Show Them a Good Time tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee. But these women are too intelligent, too ferociously mordant and painfully funny to remain in their places. In "Not the End Yet,” Flattery probes the hilarious and wrenching ambivalence of Internet dating as the apocalypse nears; in "Sweet Talk,” the mysterious disappearance of local women sets the scene for a young girl to confront the dangerous uncertainties of her own sexuality; in "Abortion, A Love Story,” two college students in a dystopian campus reconfigure the perilous stories of their bodies in a fraught academic culture to offer a subversive play that takes over their own offstage lives. Together, the stories in Show Them a Good Time provide a riveting, hilarious introduction to one of today's most original young writers.
Author: Daniel Curzon
Author: Daniel Curzon
Author: Daniel Curzon
Author: Pat Zietlow Miller
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Author: Oscar Wilde
Author: Miranda July
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Author: ZZ Packer
Author: Michael Bamberg
Author: Nicole Flattery