Author: Adam Johnson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812997484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Fortune Smiles
Author: Adam Johnson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812997484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812997484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The Smiles and Frowns of Fortune
If Fortune's Smile Decree Me Glorious
Author: Michael Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocal duets with piano
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocal duets with piano
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Love Life of a Smile
Author: Ram S. Arora
Publisher: ram
ISBN: 1442185910
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
A genuine smile is the most important element of any gesture of goodwill. It communicates kindness, love friendship, care, support, generosity, helpfulness and all that is only good. A smile is Soul's Sweetest Secret. Face is the most striking image of body and soul. It speaks of us and for us even when we do not speak. Its wrinkles and crinkles tell the world where we might have been and where we are headed to. The facial expressions that accompany the tones of our speech can attribute radically diverse meanings to exactly the same words. So, dress up your face with a simple sincere smile. It will carry you to many pleasant places you have never been to. It may build you the fortune you have been dreaming of. It will earn you the most prized reward called peace of mind at no expense. It will keep your heart beating a lot longer. Most briefly it will let you live a life in a heaven right on your own planet.
Publisher: ram
ISBN: 1442185910
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
A genuine smile is the most important element of any gesture of goodwill. It communicates kindness, love friendship, care, support, generosity, helpfulness and all that is only good. A smile is Soul's Sweetest Secret. Face is the most striking image of body and soul. It speaks of us and for us even when we do not speak. Its wrinkles and crinkles tell the world where we might have been and where we are headed to. The facial expressions that accompany the tones of our speech can attribute radically diverse meanings to exactly the same words. So, dress up your face with a simple sincere smile. It will carry you to many pleasant places you have never been to. It may build you the fortune you have been dreaming of. It will earn you the most prized reward called peace of mind at no expense. It will keep your heart beating a lot longer. Most briefly it will let you live a life in a heaven right on your own planet.
Love-Life of a Smile
Author: Ram S. Arora
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438968590
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438968590
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Love-Life of a Smile
Author: Ramsaran Arora Punjabi
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438967500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438967500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry
Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description