Author: Jon Hassler
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
From Publishers Weekly These seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more plot driven. Both the title story and "Resident Priest" feature crusty, 74-year-old Father Fogarty, a pastor who's leaving his parish after 23 years. In "Chief Larson," a seven-year-old Indian boy, known (rather improbably) only as "chief" on the reservation, rebels in a small but telling way against his white adoptive family. "Good News in Culver Bend" tracks two city reporters who travel to a small town and discover "the heart of Christmas." "Chase" and "Christopher, Moony, and the Birds" show how frustrated residents of small towns seek solace. The former, so brief it's nearly a prose poem, hints at Hassler's own adolescent discovery of his talent for fiction; the latter follows a lonely 50-year-old college professor as he goes on a consolatory walk with a student's awkward wife and child, watching "birds on family outings, hopping and halting on the grass." The cleverest story, "Yesterday's Garbage," follows a "garbologist" who finds the truth about a murder in a trash bin, and is then led to commit one himself. The publisher plans to issue Hassler's later short fiction in three more volumes, starting in the year 2000. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Out on Main Street & Other Stories
Author: Shani Mootoo
Publisher: Raincoast Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Award-winning author of Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo writes with uncommon sensitivy and brash humour, exploring gender roles, family ties, and cultural diversity.
Publisher: Raincoast Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Award-winning author of Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo writes with uncommon sensitivy and brash humour, exploring gender roles, family ties, and cultural diversity.
Christmas on Main Street
Author: JoAnn Ross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451419537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Tis the season to fall in love in four quaint small towns.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451419537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Tis the season to fall in love in four quaint small towns.
Keepsakes & Other Stories
Author: Jon Hassler
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
From Publishers Weekly These seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more plot driven. Both the title story and "Resident Priest" feature crusty, 74-year-old Father Fogarty, a pastor who's leaving his parish after 23 years. In "Chief Larson," a seven-year-old Indian boy, known (rather improbably) only as "chief" on the reservation, rebels in a small but telling way against his white adoptive family. "Good News in Culver Bend" tracks two city reporters who travel to a small town and discover "the heart of Christmas." "Chase" and "Christopher, Moony, and the Birds" show how frustrated residents of small towns seek solace. The former, so brief it's nearly a prose poem, hints at Hassler's own adolescent discovery of his talent for fiction; the latter follows a lonely 50-year-old college professor as he goes on a consolatory walk with a student's awkward wife and child, watching "birds on family outings, hopping and halting on the grass." The cleverest story, "Yesterday's Garbage," follows a "garbologist" who finds the truth about a murder in a trash bin, and is then led to commit one himself. The publisher plans to issue Hassler's later short fiction in three more volumes, starting in the year 2000. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
From Publishers Weekly These seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more plot driven. Both the title story and "Resident Priest" feature crusty, 74-year-old Father Fogarty, a pastor who's leaving his parish after 23 years. In "Chief Larson," a seven-year-old Indian boy, known (rather improbably) only as "chief" on the reservation, rebels in a small but telling way against his white adoptive family. "Good News in Culver Bend" tracks two city reporters who travel to a small town and discover "the heart of Christmas." "Chase" and "Christopher, Moony, and the Birds" show how frustrated residents of small towns seek solace. The former, so brief it's nearly a prose poem, hints at Hassler's own adolescent discovery of his talent for fiction; the latter follows a lonely 50-year-old college professor as he goes on a consolatory walk with a student's awkward wife and child, watching "birds on family outings, hopping and halting on the grass." The cleverest story, "Yesterday's Garbage," follows a "garbologist" who finds the truth about a murder in a trash bin, and is then led to commit one himself. The publisher plans to issue Hassler's later short fiction in three more volumes, starting in the year 2000. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Deckerville and Other Stories
Author: Peter Ohren
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440183627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this wonderful collection of award winning stories Peter Ohren continues to explore the lives of the characters he brought us in his second novel How It Is With Miracles (iUniverse, 2005). The stories, set in the struggling farming community of Deckerville, expose the dreams and disappointments of the people there. The author has a sympathetic grasp of the pathos of small town folk trying to cope with modern life: global competition, failing farms, love and loss, and the struggle with faith. In reading about his farmers, clerks, mechanics, shop owners and parish priests one has the feeling of an entire way of life coming into view, a way of life that may well be on the verge of extinction. These are people we know, our neighbors and friends. These are people whose joys and sorrows we can identify with and share. Deckerville is a must read book.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440183627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this wonderful collection of award winning stories Peter Ohren continues to explore the lives of the characters he brought us in his second novel How It Is With Miracles (iUniverse, 2005). The stories, set in the struggling farming community of Deckerville, expose the dreams and disappointments of the people there. The author has a sympathetic grasp of the pathos of small town folk trying to cope with modern life: global competition, failing farms, love and loss, and the struggle with faith. In reading about his farmers, clerks, mechanics, shop owners and parish priests one has the feeling of an entire way of life coming into view, a way of life that may well be on the verge of extinction. These are people we know, our neighbors and friends. These are people whose joys and sorrows we can identify with and share. Deckerville is a must read book.
The Visitor's Humor and Other Stories
Author: Jerome Johnson
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198225291X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The settings for a lot of Jerome Johnson stories seem to take place on a gravel side road somewhere. They are absurd, comical, creative and just to the left of surreal.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198225291X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The settings for a lot of Jerome Johnson stories seem to take place on a gravel side road somewhere. They are absurd, comical, creative and just to the left of surreal.
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
Author: Guiyou Huang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231501033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231501033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
Parishioners and Other Stories
Author: Joseph Dylan
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456609823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Tales of the East and West.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456609823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Tales of the East and West.
The Women who Ate Python and Other Stories
Author: Sammy Oke Akombi
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 995655801X
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to cook for the men of her community. The other stories tackle themes of corruption, poverty, alcoholism, endurance, love and more.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 995655801X
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to cook for the men of her community. The other stories tackle themes of corruption, poverty, alcoholism, endurance, love and more.
The Fluffpocalypse and Other Stories
Author: Ian Madison Keller
Publisher: Rainbow Dog Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A collection of horror short stories by Ian Madison Keller centered around a very furry apocalypse. Read about a park ranger who needs to escape from intelligent forest creatures out for her blood, a house cat who must decide between revenge or helping her friends, a girl trying to remember who she is with the help of her ghost dog, a vampire who steals the wrong artifact and ends up in over her head, and a half-bat girl out to solve a series of brutal murders. Collection includes The Fluffpocalypse, Escape from the Wild, Survivors of the Holocene, So That They May Rule, Clary's Asylum, Romancing the Tombstone, and Poppy and the Great Expo.
Publisher: Rainbow Dog Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A collection of horror short stories by Ian Madison Keller centered around a very furry apocalypse. Read about a park ranger who needs to escape from intelligent forest creatures out for her blood, a house cat who must decide between revenge or helping her friends, a girl trying to remember who she is with the help of her ghost dog, a vampire who steals the wrong artifact and ends up in over her head, and a half-bat girl out to solve a series of brutal murders. Collection includes The Fluffpocalypse, Escape from the Wild, Survivors of the Holocene, So That They May Rule, Clary's Asylum, Romancing the Tombstone, and Poppy and the Great Expo.
Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
'The Triumph of the Egg' is a short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The book contains 15 stories preceded by photographs of seven clay sculptures by Anderson's wife at the time, sculptor Tennessee Mitchell, that were inspired by characters in the book.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
'The Triumph of the Egg' is a short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The book contains 15 stories preceded by photographs of seven clay sculptures by Anderson's wife at the time, sculptor Tennessee Mitchell, that were inspired by characters in the book.