Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Sudden Fiction
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Sudden Fiction Latino
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333645X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Following the success of the Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction series, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in offering some of the best new and recent short-short stories by U.S. Latino and Latin American writers. Featuring an introduction by the much-lauded Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela, Sudden Fiction Latino celebrates work from stars like Junot Dfaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Roberto Bolofio: masters like Gabriel Garda Marquez, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges; and rising talents like Andrea Saenz, Daniel Alarcon, and Alicita Rodriguez. From as little as half a page long to a few pages, these stories are moving, challenging, humorous, artful, sometimes political, and altogether spectacular - and reveal significant distinctions and common ground between U.S. Latino and Latin American literature." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333645X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Following the success of the Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction series, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in offering some of the best new and recent short-short stories by U.S. Latino and Latin American writers. Featuring an introduction by the much-lauded Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela, Sudden Fiction Latino celebrates work from stars like Junot Dfaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Roberto Bolofio: masters like Gabriel Garda Marquez, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges; and rising talents like Andrea Saenz, Daniel Alarcon, and Alicita Rodriguez. From as little as half a page long to a few pages, these stories are moving, challenging, humorous, artful, sometimes political, and altogether spectacular - and reveal significant distinctions and common ground between U.S. Latino and Latin American literature." --Book Jacket.
Sudden Fiction International
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393306135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gathers stories by Julio Cortazar, Margaret Atwood, Colette, Heinrich Boil, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, and Isak Dinesen.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393306135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gathers stories by Julio Cortazar, Margaret Atwood, Colette, Heinrich Boil, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, and Isak Dinesen.
New Sudden Fiction
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393328011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
SHAPARD/NEW SUDDEN FICTION
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393328011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
SHAPARD/NEW SUDDEN FICTION
Sudden Fiction (continued)
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393313420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Collected from nearly two hundred international magazines, an anthology of short stories covers a wide range of themes and includes the works of William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, and Don DeLillo
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393313420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Collected from nearly two hundred international magazines, an anthology of short stories covers a wide range of themes and includes the works of William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, and Don DeLillo
A Sudden Light
Author: Garth Stein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857205781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Art of Racing in the Raincomes the breathtaking and long-awaited new novel. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle; a love affair so powerful it reaches across the planes of existence; and a young man who simply wants his parents to once again experience the moment they fell in love, hoping that if can feel that emotion again, maybe they won't get divorced after all.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857205781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Art of Racing in the Raincomes the breathtaking and long-awaited new novel. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle; a love affair so powerful it reaches across the planes of existence; and a young man who simply wants his parents to once again experience the moment they fell in love, hoping that if can feel that emotion again, maybe they won't get divorced after all.
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Author: Claire North
Publisher: Redhook
ISBN: 0316335975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger. No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am. That makes my life difficult. It also makes me dangerous. The Sudden Appearance of Hope is a riveting and heartbreaking exploration of identity and existence, about a forgotten girl whose story will stay with you forever.
Publisher: Redhook
ISBN: 0316335975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger. No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am. That makes my life difficult. It also makes me dangerous. The Sudden Appearance of Hope is a riveting and heartbreaking exploration of identity and existence, about a forgotten girl whose story will stay with you forever.
Sudden Flash Youth
Author: Christine Perkins-Hazuka
Publisher: Karen and Michael Braziller Bo
ISBN: 9780892553716
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.
Publisher: Karen and Michael Braziller Bo
ISBN: 9780892553716
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.
Being With Horses
Author: Nahshon Cook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737465508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In Being With Horses, Nahshon Cook shares with readers, his alternative universe where horses are magicians, miracles-makers, and healers teaching him how to help his students quiet their minds enough to re-awaken their intuition. With simplicity and inspiring wisdom, Nahshon Cook explores how being with horses can help people learn to find the little pieces of beauty in the broken moments of joy that keep us grounded in life enough to make life worth living. When not always being OK is OK, people are able to grieve and also sing and dance and remember and offer their own two human hands to the collective piecing together of a more wholistic hearts-space of consideration and healing for ourselves, each other, and all life in the earth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737465508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In Being With Horses, Nahshon Cook shares with readers, his alternative universe where horses are magicians, miracles-makers, and healers teaching him how to help his students quiet their minds enough to re-awaken their intuition. With simplicity and inspiring wisdom, Nahshon Cook explores how being with horses can help people learn to find the little pieces of beauty in the broken moments of joy that keep us grounded in life enough to make life worth living. When not always being OK is OK, people are able to grieve and also sing and dance and remember and offer their own two human hands to the collective piecing together of a more wholistic hearts-space of consideration and healing for ourselves, each other, and all life in the earth.
Sudden Rain
Author: Maritta Wolff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471105504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In 1972, in the suburbs around L.A., traditional housewives in their 30s and 40s are starting to ask whether they are satisfied by their everyday lives; meanwhile, a young woman in her early 20s feels paralyzed by her options. The story centers around five middle-class L.A. couples of three different generations and the ways in which their relationships and home lives are affected by the trends (specifically the rise in divorce and feminism) of the time. Maritta Wolff's moving, compelling novel takes place in one stormy L.A. weekend, as a literal fog of unrest blows into town, and alters these marriages forever.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471105504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In 1972, in the suburbs around L.A., traditional housewives in their 30s and 40s are starting to ask whether they are satisfied by their everyday lives; meanwhile, a young woman in her early 20s feels paralyzed by her options. The story centers around five middle-class L.A. couples of three different generations and the ways in which their relationships and home lives are affected by the trends (specifically the rise in divorce and feminism) of the time. Maritta Wolff's moving, compelling novel takes place in one stormy L.A. weekend, as a literal fog of unrest blows into town, and alters these marriages forever.