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Granta 122

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1905881665
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Granta 122 written by John Freeman and published by Granta. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there's the Custer impersonator who takes his role in a re-enactment too literally, and too far. And the massage therapist struggling to help a veteran whose biggest regret is tattooed across his back. With award-winning reportage, memoir, fiction and photography, Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. Feel the sting of betrayal via new writing by Ben Marcus, Janine di Giovanni, Samantha Harvey, Colin Robinson, Jennifer Vanderbes, Callan Wink, John Burnside, Andre Aciman and more.

Faces in the Crowd

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893550
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly

Sidewalks

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893577
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sidewalks written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grantland Book of the Year Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses "Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin American letters. Her vision and language are precise, and the power of her intellect is in evidence on every page."—Daniel Alarcón "I'm completely captivated by the beauty of the paragraphs, the elegance of the prose, the joy in the written word, and the literary sense of this author."—Enrique Vilas-Matas Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novel and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Some of her recent projects include a ballet performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

The Age of Wire and String

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781963
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Wire and String written by Ben Marcus and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews

New American Stories

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804173540
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book New American Stories written by Ben Marcus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

The Cinema of Tony Richardson

Author : James M. Welsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791442494
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Tony Richardson written by James M. Welsh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically surveys the films of Tony Richardson, one of Britain’s most inventive directors of stage and screen.

Kingston Noir

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751170
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Kingston Noir written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.” —Los Angeles Times From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two “special guest” writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller’s “White Gyal with a Camera,” who softens even the hardest of August Town’s gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes’s story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: “In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge.” Together—with more contributions from Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, and Christopher John Farley—the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica. “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” —Publishers Weekly “An eclectic and gritty mélange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature—rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.” —The Gleaner (Jamaica)

The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

Author : George Gordon Byron
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853264061
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the complete poetic works of Byron. As well as including such works as "Childe Harold", "Don Juan", "The Two Foscari", "The Lament of Tasso" and "The Vision of Judgement", it also contains his shorter lyrical poems.

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2014

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2014 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toward the Geopolitical Novel

Author : Caren Irr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231536313
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Geopolitical Novel written by Caren Irr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.

The Poetical Works

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publications

Author : Cambridge Antiquarian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Publications written by Cambridge Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

August

Author : Callan Wink
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812983904
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book August written by Callan Wink and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker and have won numerous accolades. Now his enormous talents are showcased in a debut novel that follows a boy growing up in the middle of the country through those difficult years between childhood and adulthood. August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn’t mind early-morning chores on his family’s Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents’ messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen—playing football and doing homework—but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where he learns that even the smallest communities have dark secrets. Covering August's adolescence, from age twelve to nineteen, this gorgeously written novel bears witness to the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all. Filled with unforgettable characters and stunning natural landscapes, this book is a moving and provocative look at growing up in the American heartland.

The Culture of Defeat

Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423193
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Defeat written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I--Wolfgang Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of vanquished nations to the experience of loss on the battlefield. Drawing on reactions from every level of society, Schivelbusch charts the narratives defeated nations construct and finds remarkable similarities across cultures. Eloquently and vibrantly told, The Culture of Defeat is a brilliant and provocative tour de force of history.

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387631
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove. In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is the dazzling debut of a blazingly original voice.

Foreign Grants and Credits by the United States Government

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Grants and Credits by the United States Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1984

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Programs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1984 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Programs and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: