Author: Kenneth A. Cook
Publisher: Back Yard Pub
ISBN: 9781931934060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Pipsqueak Papers and Other Short Stories
Author: Kenneth A. Cook
Publisher: Back Yard Pub
ISBN: 9781931934060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher: Back Yard Pub
ISBN: 9781931934060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Pipsqueak Papers
Complete Wally Wood Lunar Tunes
Author: Wallace Wood
Publisher: Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics
ISBN: 9781887591867
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combination of mad, weird science with minor nudity written and drawn by Wally Wood and published posthumously in 2005.
Publisher: Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics
ISBN: 9781887591867
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combination of mad, weird science with minor nudity written and drawn by Wally Wood and published posthumously in 2005.
This Is Pleasure
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524749141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524749141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
The Puttermesser Papers
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679777393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679777393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
Just One of the Guys
Author: Kristan Higgins
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 0373777035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In a last-ditch effort to find the man of her dreams, Chastity O'Neil, an editor and soon-to-be spinster, gives online dating a try, with interesting results.
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 0373777035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In a last-ditch effort to find the man of her dreams, Chastity O'Neil, an editor and soon-to-be spinster, gives online dating a try, with interesting results.
The Heir... Apparently, and Ashes to Ashes, a Short Story
Author: Gordon S. Dickson
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398424781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Heir ... Apparently tells the story of the rise of a simple fishmonger who unexpectedly inherits a dukedom. His family then face the many trials and tribulations of restoring and running an extravagant but dilapidated mansion. Can they succeed against the odds? In Ashes to Ashes, a short story exploring some of the characters in The Heir ... Apparently, after the skeletal remains of a body are found in the cathedral. The hunt is on for the murderer, but can he or she be found after so many years?
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398424781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Heir ... Apparently tells the story of the rise of a simple fishmonger who unexpectedly inherits a dukedom. His family then face the many trials and tribulations of restoring and running an extravagant but dilapidated mansion. Can they succeed against the odds? In Ashes to Ashes, a short story exploring some of the characters in The Heir ... Apparently, after the skeletal remains of a body are found in the cathedral. The hunt is on for the murderer, but can he or she be found after so many years?
Don Rosa Classics: The Complete Pertwillaby Papers
Author: Don Rosa
Publisher: dani books
ISBN: 3944077032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: dani books
ISBN: 3944077032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Complete Short Novels
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742829X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742829X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.
They Call Me Mad Dog!
Author: Erika Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Tomato Rodriquez's main squeeze, Hooter Mujer, swagers off the fidelity wagon, Tomato eschews passive new age sentiment and instead plots an operatic revenge. Her cunning plan, involving whipped cream, a Bic pen, and some four-by-two goes awry, surprisingly enough, and Tomato finds herself facing a murder rap. Traumatised by tough B movie one liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato transforms herself into Mad Dog, a bitch to be watched. Illustrated! 'A side-splitting romp through queer and pop culture' - Lambda Book Report
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Tomato Rodriquez's main squeeze, Hooter Mujer, swagers off the fidelity wagon, Tomato eschews passive new age sentiment and instead plots an operatic revenge. Her cunning plan, involving whipped cream, a Bic pen, and some four-by-two goes awry, surprisingly enough, and Tomato finds herself facing a murder rap. Traumatised by tough B movie one liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato transforms herself into Mad Dog, a bitch to be watched. Illustrated! 'A side-splitting romp through queer and pop culture' - Lambda Book Report