Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Strong as death. Useless beauty. Who knows? and other stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantStrong as death, Useless beauty, and other stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
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Category : Short stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
... Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant ...: Strong as death, Useless beauty, and short stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantA Useless Man
Author: Sait Faik AbasiyanikPublisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671081
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “Turkey’s greatest short story writer” (The Guardian) Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s fiction traces the interior lives of strangers in his native Istanbul: ancient coffeehouse proprietors, priests, dream-addled fishermen, poets of the Princes’ Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. The stories in A Useless Man are shaped by Sait Faik’s political autobiography – his resistance to social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the ethnic cleansing of his city – as he conjures the varied textures of life in Istanbul and its surrounding islands. The calm surface of these stories might seem to signal deference to the new Republic’s restrictions on language and culture, but Abasıyanık’s prose is crafted deceptively, with dark, subversive undercurrents. “Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems,” Rivka Galchen wrote. Beautifully translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, A Useless Man is the most comprehensive collection of Sait Faik’s stories in English to date.
A Little Life
Author: Hanya YanagiharaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2596
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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