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CAUTION Men in Trees

Author : Darrell Spencer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337463
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book CAUTION Men in Trees written by Darrell Spencer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. As suggested by the collection's epigraph from Superman—"Did you say kryptonite?"—the characters in these stories have reached a point where they realize that parts of their lives are coming undone, and that their own thoughts and actions—or, frequently, the failure to act soon enough—are the cause. Though settings and situations vary, the same sense of overwhelming urgency recurs throughout the collection. The stories reflect a world distressed by conflict and settings fraught with the occurrences of personal violence. Against the background of the O. J. Simpson trial, a man refuses to assist in a friend's suicide and realizes that he has been avoiding many unpleasant truths about himself and his life. A son faced with his father's debilitating stroke sees that he must ultimately confront the mortality and feelings of grief that he has been concealing. In the title story, the film Bugsy and talk about the disappointing reality of pop-culture heroes set the scene for a husband's frightening confrontation with his own limitations. The shock of stark revelation combines with tightly wound chains of suggestive events to create a collection of gripping, edgy stories about characters who, however battered, survive.

Song for the Unraveling of the World

Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895561
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Song for the Unraveling of the World written by Brian Evenson and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not.

Parting the Mormon Veil

Author : Ángel Chaparro Sanz
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8491341463
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Parting the Mormon Veil written by Ángel Chaparro Sanz and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro supone una invitación para descubrir la cultura y la literatura mormonas desde una perspectiva muy personal, así como un viaje fascinante al territorio literario de Phyllis Barber, una vasta extensión de un terreno físico y emocional donde los límites se entrecruzan y el tiempo teje nidos que trascienden la narrativa. Ángel Chaparro analiza el proyecto social y cultural de la ficción y las autobiografías de Phyllis Barber; examina la influencia de la cultura mormona, del paisaje del Oeste americano y de los acontecimientos históricos en su escritura; y trata de anticipar el espacio que sus libros ocupan en el desarrollo en curso de la literatura mormona y de la cultura del Oeste americano. Este original análisis va precedido de una historia de La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días.

Literary Nevada

Author : Cheryll Glotfelty
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874170125
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Literary Nevada written by Cheryll Glotfelty and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. The state of Nevada embodies paradox and contradiction—home to one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation and to isolated ranches scattered across a sparsely populated backcountry. Nevada is a place where the lust for sudden wealth has prompted both wild mining booms and glittering casinos, and where forbidding atomic test sites coexist with alluring tourist meccas. The variety and distinctiveness of Nevada’s landscape and peoples have inspired writers from the beginning of immigrant contact with the region. This contact has produced abundant literary wealth that includes the rich oral traditions of Native American peoples and an amazing spectrum of contemporary voices. Literary Nevada is the first comprehensive literary anthology of Nevada. It contains over 200 selections ranging from traditional Native American tales, explorers’ and emigrants’ accounts, and writing from the Comstock Lode and other mining boomtowns, as well as compelling fiction, poetry, and essays from throughout the state’s history. There is work by well-known Nevada writers such as Sarah Winnemucca, Mark Twain, and Robert Laxalt, by established and emerging writers from all parts of the state, and by some nonresident authors whose work illuminates important facets of the Nevada experience. The book includes cowboy poetry, travel writing, accounts of nuclear Nevada, narratives about rural life and urban life in Las Vegas and Reno, poetry and fiction from the state’s best contemporary writers, and accounts of the special beauty of wild Nevada’s mountains and deserts. Editor Cheryll Glotfelty provides insightful introductions to each section and author. The book also includes a photo gallery of selected Nevada writers and a generous list of suggested further readings. Nevada has inspired an exceptionally rich panorama of fine writing and a dazzling array of literary voices. The selections in Literary Nevada will engage and delight readers while revealing the complex and exciting diversity of the state’s history, people, and life.

Spinning Away from the Center

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356611
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Spinning Away from the Center written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home--thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

Ate It Anyway

Author : Ed Allen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344818
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ate It Anyway written by Ed Allen and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories gauge the tension between what we really feel and what we outwardly express, what we should do and what we manage to get done. In "Celibacy-by-the-Atlantic," Phil negotiates a lingering, low-intensity regret brought on by the annual family get-together at his parents' beach house, where memories of his aimless, privileged adolescence mingle with forebodings of his aimless, privileged middle age. In "A Lover's Guide to Hospitals," Carl lies in bed, pining over a stillborn romance through a moody, post-op haze of painkillers. As a consoling needle through the heart, the object of Carl's unrequited affections also turns out to be his nurse. In "Burt Osborne Rules the World," a precocious boy ponders his childhood in "a world protected against anything you could imagine doing to make it more interesting." Sensing that only more of the same awaits him as an adult, Burt charts a different course—as a class clown with a truly toxic sense of mischief. Others, like Lydia in "Ralph Goes to Mexico," assert their individuality more effortlessly, for they're just too naturally odd to be cowed by convention. Lydia's dilemma is whether she should have her leukemic cat stuffed and mounted or turned into a hat after he dies. These lyrical tales celebrate the ordinary—and the not so ordinary—with a flourish of Nabokovian wit that combines grandeur, kitsch, and the author's broad empathy with his characters.

Rituals to Observe

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356581
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Rituals to Observe written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.

Large Animals in Everyday Life

Author : Wendy Brenner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342904
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Large Animals in Everyday Life written by Wendy Brenner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings. Brenner's stories range in setting from the rural and southern (a rotating country music bar, a dog track/jai alai compound, a grocery store, a natural cold springs sinkhole) to the urban and high-tech (absurdly bureaucratic companies and academic departments and a food irradiation plant). Often young and tough women seeking to hone their survival sensibilities, Brenner's characters are a mix of the everyday and the fantastic: frustrated secretaries and scientists, a young supermodel, precocious children, fierce plumbers and mechanics, a psychic grandmother, an unhappy lottery winner, a desperate grocery-store mascot in an animal suit. And then there are the animals—real ones of all kinds who turn up at unlikely moments and often seem to be trying to help.

At-risk

Author : Amina Gautier
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344397
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book At-risk written by Amina Gautier and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,” yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences. Gautier's focus is on quiet daily moments, even in extraordinary lives; her characters do not stand as emblems of a subculture but live and breathe as people. In “The Ease of Living,” the young teen Jason is sent down south to spend the summer with his grandfather after witnessing the double murder of his two best friends, and he is not happy about it. A season of sneaking into as many movies as possible on one ticket or dunking girls at the pool promises to turn into a summer of shower chairs and the smell of Ben-Gay in the unimaginably backwoods town of Tallahassee. In “Pan Is Dead,” two half-siblings watch as the heroin-addicted father of the older one works his way back into their mother's life; in “Dance for Me,” a girl on scholarship at a posh Manhattan school teaches white girls to dance in the bathroom in order to be invited to a party. As teenagers in complicated circumstances, each of Gautier's characters is pushed in many directions. To succeed may entail unforgiveable compromises, and to follow their desires may lead to catastrophe. Yet within these stories they exist and can be seen as they are, in the moment of choosing.

What We Do with the Wreckage

Author : Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353728
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book What We Do with the Wreckage written by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Following losses big and small, environmental and familial, universal and personal, the best of us try to recover and rebuild. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or disappointment when love fails or disaster strikes? How do we maintain the stamina to carry on in an uncertain world? The characters in her stories are living these questions and learning to reconstruct themselves, their families, and their futures from the wreckage of their broken pasts.

Growing Up

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082036858X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Elvis

Author : Geoffrey Becker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340286
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Black Elvis written by Geoffrey Becker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps. In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs despite his classic bluesman looks has his regular spot at the local blues jam threatened by a newly arrived Asian American with the unlikely name Robert Johnson. In “Man Under,” two friends struggling to be rock musicians in Reagan-era Brooklyn find that their front door has been removed by their landlord. An aspiring writer discovers the afterlife consists of being the stand-in for a famous author on an endless book tour in “Another Coyote Story.” Lonely and adrift in Florence, Italy, a young man poses as a tour guide with an art history degree in “Know Your Saints.” And in “This Is Not a Bar,” a simple night on the town for a middle-aged guitar student and jazz buff turns into a confrontation with his past and an exploration of what is or is not real. In his depictions of struggling performers, artists, expectant parents, travelers, con-men, temporarily employed academics, and even the recently deceased, Becker asks the question, Which are more important: the stories we tell other people or the ones we tell ourselves?

Tell Borges If You See Him

Author : Peter LaSalle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342165
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Tell Borges If You See Him written by Peter LaSalle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eleven stories stars characters who glean experience disorientation, including the story of a man who is playing hockey at Harvard in the sixties and decades later meets his lost girlfriend at a long-gone Harvard cafeteria.

Nervous Dancer

Author : Carol Lee Lorenzo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820341991
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Nervous Dancer written by Carol Lee Lorenzo and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives on view in Nervous Dancer are complex and precarious. Speaking their familial idioms in tones and cadences determined well before they ever appeared in these stories, Carol Lee Lorenzo's characters surge into moments of change for reasons initially not apparent. In the quirky, hard-edged ways in which they stumble, beg, come of age, fall apart, and reunite, they reveal no simple notions about life. The way women and children see men is often the focus of these stories, and female voices are the most numerous in Nervous Dancer. Singularity of character can be found in anyone, however, such as the nameless father in "Unconfirmed Invitations," whose guilt over his drinking and marital infidelities leads to a bizarre hunter-gatherer compulsion. Lorenzo's women are often mothers, like LuAnn Wilson Hunter in "Something Almost Invisible," who says of herself and her son that they are "divorced from everything, we are all living in slow motion, not at home anywhere." Others find themselves in double binds with generational friction compounding their troubles, such as Eulene in "Nervous Dancer," who informs her mother, "Just because I'm in your house doesn't mean I've lost the right to fight with my husband." Lorenzo says that her characters are "in the throes of love with its impurities or as sterling as it comes, and sometimes they trip the spring and the hard face of hate appears." She believes that "it's not always the outside force, someone else's doing, that changes things or brings confrontation. It's our stranger within—our unspoken self that frightens and engages us. That's what story allows us to see."

Changes

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820358703
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Changes written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.

Silent Retreats

Author : Philip F. Deaver
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343196
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Silent Retreats written by Philip F. Deaver and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in the muddle of modern life, eyes gazing at the middle distance, the characters in Silent Retreats search, down roads paved by custom and dotted by the absurd, for escape, refuge, or, at least, merciful diversion. Many of the men in Philip Deaver's stories, having drifted out of their native Illinois to the far corners, find comfort from empty jobs and blank relationships in healing, often hilarious, seductions. In "Why I Shacked Up With Martha" a distracted DC executive pierces the gray blur of his glass box on Dupont Circle with illicit, painfully superficial notes passed to his beautiful, liberated coworker. In "Marguerite Howe," a businessman from Texas at a cocktail party in New Haven accosts his hostess, blindly convinced that she is the woman of his college day-dreams at the University of Virginia. And, in Nebraska, a defeated legal aid attorney escapes the cold wind of failure and a near suicidal woman in the deep warmth of "Fiona's Rooms." Other characters, still within the radius of central Illinois, tread through the familiar scenery of the past, measuring with landmarks of memory the distance, and yet the circularity, time has wrought in their lives. In the title story, Martin Wolf—overcome with tears during the morning commute and craving connection and the cleansing rituals of his Catholic youth—learns from the words of a parish priest, crackling through the lines of a pay phone as cars screech by on Roosevelt Road, that silence has become self-indulgent. And in "Infield," Carl Landen savors the well-ordered tableau of the Pony League diamond where he played shortstop and where his son now plays that position. Recalling the ache in the shoulder after an overhand throw, seeing in his mind the figure of his father intruding at the edge of the field, he relaxes the pain of generations, the soreness that comes from knowing a town too well. A well-known theme of Philip Deaver's stories is "what happened to men after what happened to women." The stories in Silent Retreats trace the tentative journeys of men as they redefine who they are in a changed world while still coping with memory and desire in the old ways. Above all, these stories chronicle a search for absolution—for the elusive freedom lurking among the very syllables of the word.

Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories

Author : Carol Roh Spaulding
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820365270
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories written by Carol Roh Spaulding and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. The stories chart the shifting definitions of Americanness, desire and belonging articulated, in turns, by the mother, father, grand-daughter, great-grandson, and even a ghost child who died after a tragic accident. But they center on the experience of Gracie Song, following her from girlhood to young motherhood, through her children's teenage years and finally to her elderly solitude, when to her great astonishment she finds romance with a younger man and reconciliation with an estranged daughter, both unexpected gifts of late"--