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Nahoonkara

Author : Peter Grandbois
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0983934681
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Nahoonkara written by Peter Grandbois and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Winner Finalist for Foreword’s 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction "[Nahoonkara]…incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream." —Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature "Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully between first, second, and third persons to invite readers into a textual visualization of how individual choices affect the well-being of the community." —Review of Contemporary Fiction "Peter Grandbois is a splendid writer I intend to follow very closely.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain "Vividly drawn, exquisitely crafted, Nahoonkara bespeaks not just the promise of its author, but also his undeniable power.”—Laird Hunt, author of Ray of the Star “Peter Grandbois has created an original world…and peopled it with a family portrayed vividly and with intense emotion and compassion.”—Sheila Kohler, O.Henry award winning author of Cracks and Becoming Jane Eyre In the tradition of nature writers Rick Bass and Annie Dillard, award winning writer Peter Grandbois’ new novel Nahoonkara opens up an oneiric space of wonder, a place outside preconceived notions of reality and identity, a place where we are free to re-imagine ourselves.

Areas of Fog

Author : Will Dowd
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0997745592
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Areas of Fog written by Will Dowd and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humor and erudition. A fun, breezy, and discursive read, it is an intellectual game that exposes the artificiality of genres. Will Dowd is a writer and artist based outside Boston. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where he received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship; an MS from MIT, serving as a John Lyons Fellow; and a BA from Boston College, as a Presidential Scholar.

The Gravedigger

Author : Peter Grandbois
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811858182
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book The Gravedigger written by Peter Grandbois and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small, whitewashed village, indistinguishable from any other in Andalusia, Juan Rodrigo is a gravedigger. The job was handed down to him by his father, as was the ability to hear the voices of the dead and to tell their stories to the living. Though the details and revelations of these accounts aren't always well received, Juan is a respected member of the community who encourages people to understand and to forgive. But his own tolerance is tested when his young daughter, just on the brink of adulthood, falls in love with a gypsy boy Juan doesn't approve of. Incorporating aspects of magic realism, Peter Grandbois' distinctive voice and style lures readers to an enchanting place where spirits and people coexist harmoniously.

Variations in the Key of K

Author : Alex Stein
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1733674160
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Variations in the Key of K written by Alex Stein and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2022-09-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of provocative ideas, about art and artists, Variations In The Key of K is an artfully constructed collection of stories. Franz Kafka, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake are among the many artist lives reconceived here. A book of cautionary histories, on one hand. An irreverent celebration of the graces of the creative life, on the other.

Quick Kills

Author : Lynn Lurie
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0988692295
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Quick Kills written by Lynn Lurie and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our first excursion was to the Bronx Zoo. The Photographer wanted to shoot me holding a python. The snakemaster wrapped the thickest, blackest one around my shoulders. An employee of the zoo offered to take a picture of the python and me with the Photographer, referring to me as the Photographer's daughter. At that moment the snake picked up its head and began to slither towards my face. I did not scream. I pleaded with the snakemaster to take the python off me. After the snake was in its tank, I washed my hands with a special soap. One wash was not enough. He let me wash as many times as I wanted. . . . There is fear in my eyes. I see the fear clearly even in the blurred snapshot. The adults waiting in line with their children must have seen it too. Fear like I have seen in my sister's eyes. Quick Kills chronicles the desperate longing to belong as well as the effect of neglect, familial absence, and the nature of secrets. The young female narrator is seduced by an older man who convinces her that she is the perfect subject for his photographs. Meanwhile, the narrator's sister embarks on an equally precarious journey. Never clearly delineating the border between art and pornography, the narrator's escalating disquiet is evidence that lines have been crossed. Lynn Lurie is an attorney with an MA in International Affairs and a MFA in writing. Quick Kills is her second novel.

Mailer's Last Days

Author : J. Michael Lennon
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1736494694
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Mailer's Last Days written by J. Michael Lennon and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

The Burning House

Author : Paul Lisicky
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0981968783
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Burning House written by Paul Lisicky and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty and astute novel explores loss, desire, and moral choice, as a recession-era family and community disintegrate into chaos.

Help Wanted: Female

Author : Sara Pritchard
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0983934673
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Help Wanted: Female written by Sara Pritchard and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So there was all that: the ordinary twill of life; the ho-hum sturm und drang of the workplace: the ubiquitous absurdities, the annoying co-workers, the bloody deadlines and even bloodier bottom lines; the bland, eternal, Sisyphean, absolute, unrelenting, surreal certainty of the day-in-and-day-out of it all. Life as a slice of white bread, moistened with spit and rolled into a messy glob, a doughy ball that couldn’t make the slightest dent in the iron gates of life. But then, suddenly, on August 27, 2002, all that changed. Suddenly, Rae-Jean’s uneventful life began to leaven and swell with hypotheticals. 'What if' grabbed a hold of it and pumped it a few times in its death grip. The world in Sara Pritchard's book is a known world and yet a strange place, with a cast of homeless characters who wander in and out of the stories of the collection, all set in the same university town. The linked stories take place during the time when gender discrimination in the American workplace was blatant, and when classified ads were labeled "male" or "female" accordingly. Sara Pritchard is the author of the novel-in-stories Crackpots, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the critically acclaimed linked-story collection Lately. She's lived in West Virginia for over thirty years and teaches in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MA/MFA Creative Writing Program.

Funeral Playlist

Author : Sarah Gorham
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Funeral Playlist written by Sarah Gorham and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2024-08-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using her own “funeral playlist,” Sarah Gorham examines the intricate connections between music, consolation, and human mortality. The essays in this unique collection explore a diverse range of songs, including Mozart’s “Benedictus” (The Requiem), Nina Simone’s rendition of “Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair.” Caccini’s 17 th century madrigal “Amarilli, mia bella,” the Irish “Parting Song,” Matthew Houck’s (aka Phosphorescent) dirge-like “Be Dark Night,” and “King and Lionheart,” sung by Of Monsters and Men. But there’s also the song of a mourning dove, and the nonchalance of a human hum. All may become a medium of transcendence for the living (and, possibly, the departed). What makes the book distinctive is its deeply personal approach. A series of memoir-like interstices reveal what art and artmaking can do to unite these subjects. By sharing her own story and the music that has shaped it, Sarah Gorham invites readers to think about their own relationship with death and what they want their own funeral playlist to look like.

Wait for God to Notice

Author : Sari Fordam
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1736494600
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Wait for God to Notice written by Sari Fordam and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wait for God to Notice is a love letter to an adopted country with an unstable past and an undeniable endurance to heal. In 1975, Uganda’s Finance Minister escaped to England saying, “To live in Uganda today is hell.” Idi Amin had declared himself president for life, the economy had crashed, and Ugandans were disappearing. One year later, the Fordham family arrived as Seventh-day Adventist missionaries. Fordham narrates her childhood with lush, observant prose that is also at times quite funny. She describes her family’s insular faith, her mother’s Finnish heritage, the growing conflict between her parents, the dangerous politics of Uganda, and the magic of living in a house in the jungle. Driver ants stream through their bedrooms, mambas drop out of the stove, and monkeys steal their tomatoes. Wait for God to Notice is a memoir about growing up in Uganda. It is also a memoir about mothers and daughters and about how children both know and don’t know their parents. As teens, Fordham and her sister, Sonja, considered their mother overly cautious. After their mother dies of cancer, the author begins to wonder who her mother really was. As she recalls her childhood in Uganda—the way her mother killed snakes, sweet-talked soldiers, and sold goods on the black market—Fordham understands that the legacy her mother left her daughters is one of courage and capability. Sari Fordam has lived in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, South Korea, and Austria. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, and now teaches at La Sierra University. She lives in California with her husband and daughter. This is her first book.

50 Miles

Author : Sheryl St. Germain
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0999753495
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book 50 Miles written by Sheryl St. Germain and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life and death of the author’s son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, to a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author’s own recovery from substance abuse.

Reading the Signs and other itinerant essays

Author : Stephen Benz
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1736494635
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Signs and other itinerant essays written by Stephen Benz and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays travel near and far to explore landscapes of personal and cultural significance and the communities that inhabit them. At a time when we reexamine how policies of yesteryear shape equities in the present, award-winning writer Stephen Benz challenges readers to delve beyond whitewashed versions of history and reassess our treatment of native people and the environment with fresh, critical eyes. From westward expansion and Manifest Destiny to the Cold War and the Global War on Terror, Reading the Signs prods myths and provides missing context around events touched by the American impulse to grab land and harvest resources—both within and beyond our shores. These essays challenge us to search for missing layers of truth and decide which versions of history should prevail. With a wandering spirit and an inquisitive mind, Benz ventures around town, across country, and overseas in search of forgotten, overlooked, or misunderstood stories. From rock concerts and courthouses to farm towns, battlegrounds, historical sites, and quirky museums, these “itinerant essays” revel in discovering “new wonders every mile.” Along with Topographies (Etruscan Press) and two books of travel essays—Guatemalan Journey (University of Texas Press) and Green Dreams: Travels in Central America (Lonely Planet)—Stephen Benz has published essays in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. Three of his essays have been selected for Best American Travel Writing (2003, 2015, 2019). His poems have appeared in journals such as Nimrod, Shenandoah, and Confrontation as well as in a full-length collection, Americana Motel, published by Main Street Rag Press. Benz now teaches professional writing at the University of New Mexico.

Fast Animal

Author : Tim Seibles
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0983294429
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Fast Animal written by Tim Seibles and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the seventh collection of poems by the 2012 National Book Award finalist in poetry.

The Shyster's Daughter

Author : Paula Priamos
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0983294437
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Shyster's Daughter written by Paula Priamos and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Priamos' detective noir memoir investigates a daughter's love for a father who drinks, hustles, and rages through life.

All the Difference

Author : Patricia Horvath
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0997745576
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book All the Difference written by Patricia Horvath and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Horvath's transformation from a visibly disabled young woman to someone who, abruptly, "passes" for able-bodied, reveals cultural and personal tensions surrounding disability and creates an arc that connects imprisonment to freedom. What transpires is both suffocating and liberating. Horvath's confinement keeps her from being seen, but also cocoons a deeply personal sense of selfhood and relationship. Horvath's lyric account of her experiences with severe scoliosis sings the connective tissue between her physical disability and her powerful interior. She is "poorly put together," her "body leans sharply to the left," she is "brittle-boned, stoop-shouldered, with an "S" shaped spine," her words flame up spirited and true. Wry and breathtakingly poignant, this meditative, inspirational memoir delves into that most invisible, vital structure: identity, whose shaping and disfigurement makes all the difference in our lives. This book will particularly appeal to people interested in disability studies, feminist issues, 1970s popular culture, fairy tales, and survival. Patricia Horvath's stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals including Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Confrontation. She is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction and of Bellevue Literary Review's Goldenberg Prize in Fiction for a story that was accorded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. She teaches at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.

Museum of Stones

Author : Lynn Lurie
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0999753460
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Museum of Stones written by Lynn Lurie and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum of Stones reveals a possessive/obsessive world of a love that must be released. An exceptional child collects too many rocks, invents a garbage recycler that runs amok, does not “play well.” His mother takes their relationship to extremes, threatening her sanity and health, a wrenching yet often funny account.

American Mother

Author : Colum McCann
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book American Mother written by Colum McCann and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A spectacular tale of violence and forgiveness."— Salman Rushdie “It’s kind of unique in my experience. . . . It’s a novelist writing about an actual event with a depth and thoroughness that you never get from the news.”—Michael Cunningham, via New York Times What does a mother say to the person responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering her son? National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry. In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane’s chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might she even be able to summon forgiveness for him? So begins American Mother— which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. Diane looks back on the early days when Jim was a child and his journey to journalism, and the killing fields of the world where he reports with indefatigable determination and insight on the plight of those caught up in the agonies of war. She guides us through her family history and the difficulties they faced when Jim was captured. And she also charts the tenacity it takes to turn her grief into grace as she seeks to give voice to those who are still being kidnapped and wrongfully detained around the world. Few journeys are more worthy than this and, in this astonishing book, we are all invited to celebrate the lives of those who are never, in the end, gone.