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Author: Bob Stockton Publisher: Gatekeeper Press ISBN: 1662902905 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 327
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A shipwreck’s tragic toll in human life. The changing face of a quiet turn-of-the century neighborhood. A man who lost his wife unexpectedly. An obnoxious drunk who gets more than he bargained for. A horse who develops an affinity for a Hawaiian saloon. A submarine’s up close and personal encounter with a snoozing whale. Each of these stories and much more are found in “The Blue Collar Blues,” author Bob Stockton’s personal anthology of forty-six short stories that have been published over the past decade. The book’s first section contains stories of a young boy’s coming of age in an ever-changing northeast working-class neighborhood. The second section highlights standalone stories that run from autobiographical to allegorical. The third section focuses on the adventures-and misadventures- of young sailors serving in the U.S. Navy of a half-century past. The fourth section relates actual tales of the U.S. Navy and her sailors deployed along the Pacific Rim. Grab a cup of coffee and escape into the mind of an author with a flair for describing what is really important in life.
Author: T.C. Boyle Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101462183 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live” (The New York Times)—from the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain. “Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”—The Los Angeles Times Book Review In “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in “All Shook Up,” he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in “On for the Long Haul,” he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.
Author: Bob Stockton Publisher: Gatekeeper Press ISBN: 1662902905 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
A shipwreck’s tragic toll in human life. The changing face of a quiet turn-of-the century neighborhood. A man who lost his wife unexpectedly. An obnoxious drunk who gets more than he bargained for. A horse who develops an affinity for a Hawaiian saloon. A submarine’s up close and personal encounter with a snoozing whale. Each of these stories and much more are found in “The Blue Collar Blues,” author Bob Stockton’s personal anthology of forty-six short stories that have been published over the past decade. The book’s first section contains stories of a young boy’s coming of age in an ever-changing northeast working-class neighborhood. The second section highlights standalone stories that run from autobiographical to allegorical. The third section focuses on the adventures-and misadventures- of young sailors serving in the U.S. Navy of a half-century past. The fourth section relates actual tales of the U.S. Navy and her sailors deployed along the Pacific Rim. Grab a cup of coffee and escape into the mind of an author with a flair for describing what is really important in life.
Author: Su-May Tan Publisher: ISBN: 9781925052749 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lake Malibu and other stories is a collection of short stories about various people from a small Malaysian town connected by a theme of escapism. Through the interlinked stories, we get to know the residents of Ipoh who struggle with various entanglements such as filial obligations, societal pressure, and increasing exposure to Western influences. Two young boys dream of greener pastures in a Western country. A teenage boy falls in love with his best friend's mother. An elderly lady reevaluates her relationship with her son who has settled down in Australia. A Malaysian woman who has moved to Melbourne with her family. The stories in the collection explore themes of cultural identity and migration in a world that is more globalised and fluid than ever. *Highly Commended, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award*
Author: James Lee Burke Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451618476 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
Author: R. C. Gordon-McCutchan Publisher: Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books ISBN: 9781878610577 Category : Freedom of religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines the varied roles of contemporary folk artists from many regions of the world.
Author: Jerome Johnson Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 198225291X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 642
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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.
Author: Ashley Capes Publisher: Close-Up Books ISBN: 0987623214 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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Leap into worlds like and unlike our own: a creepy restaurant stalks its customers, steampunk slaves find a new home in the Australian desert, storybook characters come alive to make deals with the Roman God of Sleep and in the future, a synthetic society suffers dark consequences of endless augmentation... all these stories and more lurk within. A collection of short fiction featuring steampunk, cyberpunk, fantasy and even a little horror!
Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Country Idyl, and Other Stories" by Sarah Knowles Bolton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Bob Stockton
Author: T.C. Boyle
Author: Donna Bergman
Author: Bob Stockton
Author: Charles Reade
Author: Su-May Tan
Author: James Lee Burke
Author: R. C. Gordon-McCutchan
Author: Jerome Johnson
Author: Ashley Capes
Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton