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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811216081 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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"The one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Somber, nostalgic and often mystical, these marvelous fictions provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics. The parable-like novella The Old Child describes a girl's mind seemingly blank: picked up off the street with no discoverable past, she is brought to a children's home where she finds she can "succeed by her silence." In another story, "Siberia," the heroine smuggled out of a Russian camp vigorously re-establishes herself in her old home. In "Hale and Hallowed," a woman pays a surprise nighttime visit to her friend with whom she shared a hospital room when their two sons were born."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Octavia E. Butler Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1538765497 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 350
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This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811216081 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
"The one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Somber, nostalgic and often mystical, these marvelous fictions provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics. The parable-like novella The Old Child describes a girl's mind seemingly blank: picked up off the street with no discoverable past, she is brought to a children's home where she finds she can "succeed by her silence." In another story, "Siberia," the heroine smuggled out of a Russian camp vigorously re-establishes herself in her old home. In "Hale and Hallowed," a woman pays a surprise nighttime visit to her friend with whom she shared a hospital room when their two sons were born."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Sylvia Plath Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571314651 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 71
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A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.
Author: Daniel Menaker Publisher: Penguin Group USA ISBN: 9780140108521 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Eight stories follow the life of a young teacher at the Columbia School of journalism as he courts his wife, becomes a father, and learns to live with his own flaws
Author: Ali Smith Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141900326 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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The First Person and Other Stories is the fourth collection of short stories by Ali Smith. The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and - a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'Smith's is a profoundly optimistic vision. These stories are frightening yet funny, and the sheer exuberance and playfulness of her language endows dark matters with a lightness of touch' New Statesman 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'Terrific . . . hurrah for Ali Smith . . . The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these . . . A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' Times 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent
Author: F. Volkhovskii Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 75
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This is a joyful collection of six short stories, including A China Cup, How Scarlet-Comb the Cock defended the Right, The Tiny Screw, The Dream, Browny, The Old Sword's Mistake, 'My Own', and The Tale about how all these Tales came to Light. Each story is designed to entertain and instruct both children and adults on the simple joys of living a good life. With themes of family, friendship, loyalty and bravery.
Author: Peter Chika Publisher: Akikiro ISBN: 1737963418 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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How does a philandering London lawyer explain the condom his shocked wife found in his clothes that morning?
Can sophisticated Ada hold her breath—and misgivings—long enough to finish consulting the musty mystic healer on her childlessness?
Why does feisty Nez seem to be doing everything possible to fail her visa interview at the US Embassy?
Will straitlaced Susan, a chorister and prayer warrior, come up with a ruse in time to stop her partner from yielding to the rapacious preacher?
Intrigue follows intrigue as The Condom and Other Stories reels out a colorful cast of characters that readers will love and loathe at the same time. The seventeen stories are told at pace, each laced with humor, snappy dialogue, and the occasional twist. As the heroines and heroes wade through encounters and trying relationships, their inflamed passions, conflicted moralities, and nifty schemes come together to produce a series of amusing results.
Author: Various Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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There are eight much-loved tales in this volume. They have become 'classics' of children's fiction: stories like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Author: Sylvia Plath
Author: Daniel Menaker
Author: Ali Smith
Author: Julia Donaldson
Author: F. Volkhovskii
Author: Peter Chika
Author: Mr. L. K., Mrs. Lippincott
Author: Various