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ISBN 13 : 9781595530141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Glimmer Train Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon Ravenel
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565123755
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)
Download or read book New Stories from the South : the Year's Best. 1986-2007 written by Shannon Ravenel and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by writers with Southern backgrounds deal with the modern problems of life in the South
Author : Laura van den Berg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374177236
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Isle of Youth written by Laura van den Berg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautiful, strange, and compulsively readable stories from an already-celebrated young writer"--
Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction written by Susan Burmeister-Brown and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top-Notch Writing Advice from Today's Premiere Writers
Author : Andrew Roe
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 161620494X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Miracle Girl written by Andrew Roe and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first miracle was that she lived. The crowds keep coming. They arrive, all with their reasons, all with their doubts and certainties and everything in between. More and more every day, drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. They come to Shaker Street to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a coma-like state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed it happened because of Anabelle. Word spreads. There are more visitors, more supposed miracles, more stories on TV and the Internet. But is this the divine at work or something else?
Author : Joan Wickersham
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958892
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The News from Spain written by Joan Wickersham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the Year The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.
Author : Laura Van den Berg
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640898
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)
Download or read book What the World Will Look Like when All the Water Leaves Us written by Laura Van den Berg and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane. A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a young woman travelling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer. Rendered with grace and precision, this breathtaking collection is narrated by women yearning for absolution, for solace, for the flash of extraordinary that will forever alter their lives. 'Laura van den Berg taps into her characters' losses with an impressive clarity . . . These tales are the work of a notable author finding her voice.' - Publishers Weekly 'A young writer with talent to burn; the beauty of her writing is matched only by the fierce emotional empathy for her characters.' - The Courier-Journal
Author : Sophie Chen Keller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735210780
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Luster of Lost Things written by Sophie Chen Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story for readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Man Called Ove, when all seems lost, he finds what matters most. Walter Lavender Jr. is a master of finding. A wearer of high-tops. A maker of croissants. A son keeping vigil, twelve years counting. But he wouldn’t be able to tell you. Silenced by his motor speech disorder, Walter’s life gets lonely. Fortunately, he has The Lavenders—his mother’s enchanted dessert shop, where marzipan dragons breathe actual fire. He also has a knack for tracking down any missing thing—except for his lost father. So when the Book at the root of the bakery’s magic vanishes, Walter, accompanied by his overweight golden retriever, journeys through New York City to find it—along the way encountering an unforgettable cast of lost souls. Steeped in nostalgic wonder, The Luster of Lost Things explores the depths of our capacity for kindness and our ability to heal. A lyrical meditation on why we become lost and how we are found, from the bright, broken heart of a boy who knows where to look for everyone but himself.
Author : Lauren Groff
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401396372
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Delicate Edible Birds written by Lauren Groff and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town. In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime--or several lifetimes. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif--sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur; they're in every story--love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme--Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom. Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.
Author : Nellie Hermann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416568239
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Cure for Grief written by Nellie Hermann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply bonded to her three older brothers and in awe of her father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor, young Ruby is shocked when her eldest brother is abruptly taken away to a hospital, where he changes into a person she barely recognizes. 35,000 first printing.
Author : David Harris Ebenbach
Publisher : Juniper Prize for Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9781625342614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Guy We Didn't Invite to the Orgy written by David Harris Ebenbach and published by Juniper Prize for Fiction. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXCERPT There was one guy we didn't invite to the orgy. We invited everyone else: Solaire because she's crazy and John and Walt because they're both so good--looking and they're dating anyway, and we invited Amy because everybody just loves Amy. We even invited Miranda just because she's the jealous type, and since her sister was in town we threw the door open to her sister, too. But there was this one guy we didn't invite. The stories in The Guy We Didn't Invite to the Orgy--funny, surprising, compassionate, true to life--are about people navigating the trickiest of landscapes: a world full of other people. Each of these characters wants to know, in her or his own way, given the crazy ups and downs and ins and outs of relationships, is it better to go it alone, or is it better to try to carve out a place for yourself, whatever it takes?
Author : Edan Lepucki
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358093163
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 written by Edan Lepucki and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they couldn't shake and engaged in deep conversations about how good writing brings people together, no matter what else is happening around the world. With the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki they have compiled The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.
Author : Laura Oliver, M.F.A.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101545801
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Story Within written by Laura Oliver, M.F.A. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Oliver has been teaching aspiring writers how to plumb emotional contradictions for insight for more than a decade in workshops and university classes. Now she has written the book her students have been asking her for, a book that aspiring writers of every genre can use to guide, coach, and encourage them on their journey.The Story Within employs the compelling art of memoir to illuminate craft and touches on nuanced subjects only a teacher who is herself actively writing knows to address. Each chapter offers excerpts from Laura's own stories, as well as those of students and published authors and then provides fresh advice and clear instruction on the subject of writing.
Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743985
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Stories of John Cheever written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian
Author : Peter Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597094597
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Man Receives a Letter written by Peter Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erika Krouse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501141872
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Come Up and See Me Sometime written by Erika Krouse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : James Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393352420
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World written by James Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.
