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Ovenman: A Novel

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0982503067
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Ovenman: A Novel written by Jeff Parker and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut novel follows When Thinfinger--skateboarder, kitchen worker extraordinaire, and ne'er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold--and the trail of Post-It notes he relies on to make sense of his world. When a robbery occurs at his beloved pizza parlor, things begin to heat up for Ovenman. Skateboarder, restaurant worker, and punk rocker wannabe, the antihero of Jeff Parker’s uproariously funny debut novel adds a new twist to the classic coming-of-age story. Our hero, When Thinfinger, is a ne’er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold, and relies on Post-it notes to help him make sense of the chaos and momentum of his life: a girlfriend who dreams he murders her, a long lost Biodad who writes letters filled with lies, a televised war that is over before it has even begun, and a robbery he can’t remember committing.

Ovenman

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0977698920
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book Ovenman written by Jeff Parker and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-intentioned skateboarder and punk rocker When Thinfinger struggles with his work at a hip pizza joint, his band's dogma, his girlfriend's eccentric decorating tastes, and other challenges before his best friend's plan for artistic prestige prompts When to take things too far. Original.

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : featherproof books
ISBN 13 : 1943888035
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion written by Jeff Parker and published by featherproof books. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not insufferable, and yet there are athletes like Metta World Peace who transcend lame clichés and rote patter, who use language in surprising ways, who can be funny and shocking and insightful and alarmingly sincere — pure poetry. Muhammad Ali offered dazzling displays of lexical wizardry, and Allen Iverson’s infamous “practice” rant shifted the post-game press conference from the banal to the absurd. This book is a celebration of these rare and exceptional moments. Various poetic forms and line-breaks highlight — or, in the words of Deion Sanders, “deem to set a candor on” — the sophisticated, sublime, and surprising performances of language made by professional athletes.

Temporary People

Author : Steven Gillis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976899365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Temporary People written by Steven Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Temporary People' explores the human condition in all its most vulnerable exposures. Sharp and satirical, it is a breathtakingly paced romp, and the end will leave you drop-jawed and wanting more. 'Temporary People' is a book for the ages and Steven Gillis delivers."Temporary People is a vicious and compelling storyboard for our time."-Jeff Parker, author of Ovenman"As thoroughly dark and thoroughly humane as Vonnegut's apocalyptic novels like 'Cat's Cradle' and ' Galapagos'.... Here's a fable for our time, and for just about any other time you can imagine."-Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.! Steven Gillis is the author of the novels 'Walter Falls' and 'The Weight of Nothing', both finalists for the Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award and 'ForeWord Magazine' 's Book of the Year awards for 2003 and 2005. He is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a collection of his stories-titled 'Giraffes' -was published in 2007.

Where Bears Roam The Streets

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443415855
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Where Bears Roam The Streets written by Jeff Parker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” —Maclean’s Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the first time in history, of a Russian middle class. But Russia tends to resist any attempt to pin it down. In the midst of the social and financial upheaval of the years that followed, the answers Parker sought only raised more questions: What was Russia? How did it work? How did people live? And how could they eat kholodetz (meat jelly)? As tensions strain once again between Russia and the West, Parker looks beyond the global politics to the heart of everyday life by giving us the story of his friendship with Igor, a barkeep and draft dodger. Igor is not the model perestroika-generation man nor some kind of Putin-era everyman; he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place. He is the metaphor for a Russia in crisis, and, as Keith Gessen wrote, “his story is the story of Russia over the last twenty years.” Where Bears Roam the Streets gives a moving account of a friendship between two people who grew up on the opposing sides of the Cold War and paints a smart, funny, revealing portrait of a country that continues to beguile.

Amerika

Author : Mikhail Iossel
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783561
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Amerika written by Mikhail Iossel and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and sombre, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time - offers readers a unique chance to see Americans in a whole new light, to question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.

Everywhere You Don't Belong

Author : Gabriel Bump
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643750224
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Everywhere You Don't Belong written by Gabriel Bump and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump’s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don’t know he’s hypnotized you until he’s done.” —Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.

Cosmo

Author : Spencer Gordon
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770563318
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Cosmo written by Spencer Gordon and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book "These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits. Each short story sounds with the thunder of a novel. Enthralling, dark, gut-busting stuff!"—Jeff Parker Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three thousand-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction. Spencer Gordon is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Cosmo (Coach House Books, 2012), the poetry collection Cruise Missile Liberals (forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in fall 2017), and three chapbooks. He is a co-founder of the ten-year-old literary magazine The Puritan, and his writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, and other forums. He works at a speakers bureau in Toronto.

The Taste of Penny

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982520444
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Taste of Penny written by Jeff Parker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tight, wry, dark, and deeply funny, Parker's collection agitates the senses in stories modern and mischievous.

Rasskazy

Author : Mikhail Iossel
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rasskazy written by Mikhail Iossel and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring some of Russia's most prestigious post-Soviet writers, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia portrays the range of aesthetics and subject matter faced by a generation that never knew Communism. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.

Six Sick Hipsters

Author : Rayo Casablanca
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758222831
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Six Sick Hipsters written by Rayo Casablanca and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a serial killer begins targeting uber-hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the members of the Whole Sick Crew, the stars of the hipster universe, are plunged into a world of mayhem, manipulation, contract killers, raw sewage, and murderous monkeys as they try to stop him. Original.

All We Want is Everything

Author : Andrew F. Sullivan
Publisher : Arp Books
ISBN 13 : 9781894037846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book All We Want is Everything written by Andrew F. Sullivan and published by Arp Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut collection of short stories by Canadian author Andrew F. Sullivan. Includes 20 stories.

Rasskazy

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0982053908
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Rasskazy written by Jeff Parker and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-three depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. “What’s new is the rhythm and snap of the hip, modern, contemporary voices that we would expect to hear rattling into a cell phone in the booth next to ours, and the rendering of that voice into an English that’s as idiomatic and confident as we imagine these speakers to be. . . . How fortunate we are . . . that we now have Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia” —from the introduction by Francine Prose

The Publishers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Letter Word

Author : Joshua Knelman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416569731
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Four Letter Word written by Joshua Knelman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original compilation of short fiction created in the form of a series of love letters by forty celebrated writers includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, A.L. Kennedy, Jan Morris, Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Very Mercenary

Author : Rayo Casablanca
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758241208
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Very Mercenary written by Rayo Casablanca and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of 6 Sick Hipsters comes a razor-sharp, darkly satirical, brilliantly warped new novel about murder, love, torture, art, ninjas, ambition, drugs. . .and everything in between. Leigh Tiller has just been kidnapped. The beautiful, ineffably cool New York socialite is being held by a group of mentally ill terrorists who've demanded millions in ransom from Leigh's wealthy father. There's just one problem: Kip Tiller doesn't want Leigh back. He wants her dead. And he's hired The Serologist--a psychotic, patchwork-scarred hit man--to make sure it happens. Leigh's unlikely savior is Laser Mechanic, the coolly brilliant leader of the guerrilla art collective, Strategic Art Defense. Now, Laser, his team of highly trained artists, and Leigh are on their way to Las Vegas, running from The Serologist and the cops. . .and into a head-on collision with several contract killers--the Gashes, vicious girl bikers, the Black Sultans, adolescent gang-bangers, and the Bisons, a pair of sadistic, meth-addled brothers--looking to make a fast fortune. The outcome will be bloody, brutal, bizarre--and utterly unexpected. . . Praise for Rayo Casablanca and Six Sick Hipsters "Thoroughly amusing and utterly demented." --Owen King, author of We're All In This Together "A wild, poignant, twisted, bitterly funny page turner." --Jason Starr, author of The Follower "A wild ride of a novel." --Jeff Parker, author of Ovenman and The Back of the Line "Mad as a bag of artistic squirrels. With guns. Very brilliant and very original." --Allan Guthrie, author of Savage Night "Anarchy as art, rampaging hitmen, and some serious Daddy Issues fuel Rayo Casablanca's violent, savvy, and propulsive Very Mercenary. Think Andy Warhol meets The Monkey Wrench Gang and you're getting the picture. Casablanca's writing cuts hard, fast, and deep as a buzzsaw. Reader beware: you're going to bleed." --Craig Davidson, author of The Fighter

Tin House

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tin House written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: