Author: J. A. Hammerton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360466344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
"The Call of the Town" by way of J. A. Hammerton is a compelling anthology where the writer intricately weaves collectively a diverse collection of fiction memories, aiming to cause them to handy to a wide target audience with a lower priced fee tag. Within this literary compilation, readers stumble upon a tapestry of narratives, ranging from the intriguing and splendid to those that subtly captivate, step by step drawing readers into their depths. This fiction painting spans diverse themes and thoughts, catering to readers of various age businesses and tastes. The stories are thoughtfully consolidated right into an unmarried draft, growing a cohesive analyzing experience. Hammerton's storytelling prowess unfolds thru plotlines which might be wealthy with twists and turns, making sure that readers continue to be engaged and amazed for the duration of. The book not handiest guarantees a literary adventure but also gives itself with a sparkling and captivating cowl, coupled with a professionally typeset manuscript. This present day edition of "The Call of the Town" is designed for clarity, supplying a cutting-edge touch to Hammerton's timeless fiction, making it a charming and handy literary experience for a various audience.
The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life
Author: J. A. Hammerton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360466344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
"The Call of the Town" by way of J. A. Hammerton is a compelling anthology where the writer intricately weaves collectively a diverse collection of fiction memories, aiming to cause them to handy to a wide target audience with a lower priced fee tag. Within this literary compilation, readers stumble upon a tapestry of narratives, ranging from the intriguing and splendid to those that subtly captivate, step by step drawing readers into their depths. This fiction painting spans diverse themes and thoughts, catering to readers of various age businesses and tastes. The stories are thoughtfully consolidated right into an unmarried draft, growing a cohesive analyzing experience. Hammerton's storytelling prowess unfolds thru plotlines which might be wealthy with twists and turns, making sure that readers continue to be engaged and amazed for the duration of. The book not handiest guarantees a literary adventure but also gives itself with a sparkling and captivating cowl, coupled with a professionally typeset manuscript. This present day edition of "The Call of the Town" is designed for clarity, supplying a cutting-edge touch to Hammerton's timeless fiction, making it a charming and handy literary experience for a various audience.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360466344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
"The Call of the Town" by way of J. A. Hammerton is a compelling anthology where the writer intricately weaves collectively a diverse collection of fiction memories, aiming to cause them to handy to a wide target audience with a lower priced fee tag. Within this literary compilation, readers stumble upon a tapestry of narratives, ranging from the intriguing and splendid to those that subtly captivate, step by step drawing readers into their depths. This fiction painting spans diverse themes and thoughts, catering to readers of various age businesses and tastes. The stories are thoughtfully consolidated right into an unmarried draft, growing a cohesive analyzing experience. Hammerton's storytelling prowess unfolds thru plotlines which might be wealthy with twists and turns, making sure that readers continue to be engaged and amazed for the duration of. The book not handiest guarantees a literary adventure but also gives itself with a sparkling and captivating cowl, coupled with a professionally typeset manuscript. This present day edition of "The Call of the Town" is designed for clarity, supplying a cutting-edge touch to Hammerton's timeless fiction, making it a charming and handy literary experience for a various audience.
A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
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The Novelist in the Novel
Author: Elizabeth King
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000965481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists, a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories, The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them, offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist, entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet, each of these dynamics is gendered, with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists, and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship, a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. "Silly Lady Novelists" are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000965481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists, a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories, The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them, offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist, entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet, each of these dynamics is gendered, with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists, and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship, a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. "Silly Lady Novelists" are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius.
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This Town Sleeps
Author: Dennis E. Staples
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640092854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis unmakes something in us, then remakes it, a quilt of characters that embody this town, this place, which sleeps but doesn’t dream, or it is all a dream we want to wake up from with its characters.” —Tommy Orange, author of There, There On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. Then one night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life the spirit of a dog from beneath the elementary school playground. The mysterious revenant leads him to the grave of Kayden Kelliher, an Ojibwe basketball star who was murdered at the age of seventeen and whose presence still lingers in the memories of the townsfolk. While investigating the fallen hero’s death, Marion discovers family connections and an old Ojibwe legend that may be the secret to unraveling the mystery he has found himself in. Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640092854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis unmakes something in us, then remakes it, a quilt of characters that embody this town, this place, which sleeps but doesn’t dream, or it is all a dream we want to wake up from with its characters.” —Tommy Orange, author of There, There On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. Then one night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life the spirit of a dog from beneath the elementary school playground. The mysterious revenant leads him to the grave of Kayden Kelliher, an Ojibwe basketball star who was murdered at the age of seventeen and whose presence still lingers in the memories of the townsfolk. While investigating the fallen hero’s death, Marion discovers family connections and an old Ojibwe legend that may be the secret to unraveling the mystery he has found himself in. Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
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Mark Twain, A Literary Life
Author: Everett Emerson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Mark Twain endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark Twain the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book."—from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary Life, Everett Emerson revisits one of America's greatest and most popular writers to explore the relationship between the life of the writer and his writings. The assumption throughout is that to see Mark Twain's writings in focus, one must give proper attention to their biographical context. Mark Twain's literary career is fascinating in its strangeness. How could this genius have had so little sense of what he should next do? As a young man, Samuel Clemens's first vocation, that of journeyman printer, took him far from home to the sights of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, while his next vocation would give him the identity by which we most frequently know him. His choice of "Mark Twain" as a pen name cemented his bond with the river, as did such books as Life on the Mississippi and Huckleberry Finn. Then following an unsuccessful try at silver mining, Clemens worked as a newspaperman, humorist, lecturer, but also cultivated an interest in playwriting, politics, and philosophizing. In reporting the author's life, Emerson has endeavored to permit Mark Twain to tell his own story as much as possible, through the use of letters and autobiographical writings, some unpublished. These fascinating glimpses into the life of the writer will be of interest to all who have an abiding affection for Samuel Clemens and his extraordinary legacy.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Mark Twain endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark Twain the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book."—from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary Life, Everett Emerson revisits one of America's greatest and most popular writers to explore the relationship between the life of the writer and his writings. The assumption throughout is that to see Mark Twain's writings in focus, one must give proper attention to their biographical context. Mark Twain's literary career is fascinating in its strangeness. How could this genius have had so little sense of what he should next do? As a young man, Samuel Clemens's first vocation, that of journeyman printer, took him far from home to the sights of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, while his next vocation would give him the identity by which we most frequently know him. His choice of "Mark Twain" as a pen name cemented his bond with the river, as did such books as Life on the Mississippi and Huckleberry Finn. Then following an unsuccessful try at silver mining, Clemens worked as a newspaperman, humorist, lecturer, but also cultivated an interest in playwriting, politics, and philosophizing. In reporting the author's life, Emerson has endeavored to permit Mark Twain to tell his own story as much as possible, through the use of letters and autobiographical writings, some unpublished. These fascinating glimpses into the life of the writer will be of interest to all who have an abiding affection for Samuel Clemens and his extraordinary legacy.