The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories PDF full book. Access full book title The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories by Don Carpenter. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Don Carpenter Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486843432 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
"No pretty little thoughts, no fake faith-restoratives -- just hard solid craftsmanship and style." -- The New York Times (An Outstanding Book of the Year). The High Sierras, the Oregon back country, Hollywood, and San Francisco provide the backdrops for these two novellas and eight shorter pieces by the acclaimed author of Hard Rain Falling. The stories display an impressive range and variety, from the stark shocks of "Limbo" to a compassionate study of loneliness, "One of Those Big-City Girls."
Author: Don Carpenter Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486843432 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
"No pretty little thoughts, no fake faith-restoratives -- just hard solid craftsmanship and style." -- The New York Times (An Outstanding Book of the Year). The High Sierras, the Oregon back country, Hollywood, and San Francisco provide the backdrops for these two novellas and eight shorter pieces by the acclaimed author of Hard Rain Falling. The stories display an impressive range and variety, from the stark shocks of "Limbo" to a compassionate study of loneliness, "One of Those Big-City Girls."
Author: Jackie Lutes Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781481168977 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The "big round table" in the author's childhood home was the place to eat and talk, the place where her parents engaged in after-dinner chess matches, the place where her father made simple repairs to, e.g., radios, lamps, etc. But in the author's memory it is, best of all, the place where her father told imaginative and engaging "tall tales" presented in a style characterized by humorous digressions, a warm confidentiality and a nonsensical logic that dared one not to believe what would seem to be unbelievable. In "Fish, Fog, Frogs (and other stories)" during a visit to her childhood home (and the "big round table"), the author encourages her father to share his stories with her children (his two grandchildren). With only a little urging, he begins with the tale of his pet (crime-fighting) fish. He feigns a hesitancy to continue but before the family leaves the table, Jennifer and Jonathan have heard six of his most famous tales. Though the reading level is for 4th-6th grades, the stories and setting make this a book for all ages, encouraging families to leave their "big flat screen TVs" and find their own version of a "big round table" where they can identify the stars and supporting cast of their own family legends, keeping alive memories of people and experiences that have helped to shape who they are.
Author: Fred Whissel Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0615151779 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
This very readable book will get you all fired up about small-town life in the 1950s! Flaunting a Dave Barry brand of humor, dozens of period photos, 50 unique drawings, 31 stand-alone stories, and often a literary level of writing, it rides the reader on a metaphorical Whizzer motorbike journey through life, from days of innocence through forsaken virtue. Along the way, village fires are both personal tragedies and popular roadside attractions. Actual events and historical personages mist over like foggy mornings. How much of each account is fact, how much is fiction? The author asks the reader to decide--and offers help with two different beginnings and endings! Everything in this book is, of course, absolutely, positively true. Sort of.
Author: Alessandro Portelli Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 9781438416335 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 682
Book Description
Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
"The Witch and Other Stories" belongs to the famous collections of works by Chekhov, the prominent Russian writer. He is a master of creating complex characters, often torn between sins and virtues, trying to find their place in this world.
Author: Don Carpenter
Author: Don Carpenter
Author: Jackie Lutes
Author: Honor ̌de Balzac
Author: Fred Whissel
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Author: Karma Wilson
Author: Honoré de Balzac