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Sky Over El Nido

Author : C. M. Mayo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820321192
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sky Over El Nido written by C. M. Mayo and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mother rescued the three zebras that escaped from the London zoo”--so begins the first story in this whirlwind collection by C. M. Mayo. Though Mayo’s characters ricochet around the globe in search of diversion, money, enlightenment, cachet, and escape, she sets many of the stories in Sky Over El Nido in Mexico. This is not the gringo’s Mexico of margaritas, mariachis, and inscrutable house servants, but a fin-de-siècle world where a Mexican boy who guards tourists’ cars for small change wears a T-shirt that says “Six Flags Over Georgia.” Mayo’s strangely beautiful yet disturbing stories reveal characters who envision the solutions to their lives in a world where nothing is stable, nothing can be nailed down, and we are all suddenly, dizzyingly faced with sharing the same pitiless sky.

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spinning Away from the Center

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820372412
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 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.

Hold that Knowledge

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820355283
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hold that Knowledge written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on love--and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more. Emerging love, or love on its way out the door. Love that transcends, or love that just stubbornly hangs on. These fourteen stories give us at least that many new ways of looking at a state of mind that can send us either soaring or plummeting, all in a heartbeat.

The Slow Release

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820355305
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Slow Release written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death–and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more. Most of the expected ways by which we take our leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we’d rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling that we can’t stop thinking about it. How can something so final and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they be around—in our hearts and heads–even after they’re gone? How will we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one? These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.

Curled in the Bed of Love

Author : Catherine Brady
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342203
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Curled in the Bed of Love written by Catherine Brady and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Brady's stories are gritty and unflinching in their gaze, yet lyrical and rich in the imagery of stasis and change. There is much to learn in these tales of flawed but good people working hard to hold their lives together.

Changes

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368652
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 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Copy Cats

Author : David Crouse
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330787
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Copy Cats written by David Crouse and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse’s powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities. “Who are you?” a homeless man asks his would-be benefactor in the title story. On the surface it’s a simple question, but one that would stump many of the characters who inhabit these carefully rendered tales. In the edgy novella “Click” Jonathan’s ongoing photo-documentary of a prostitute exposes how little intensity remains between him and his fiancée, Margaret. While Jonathan is plagued with doubts about his motivations and abilities as an artist, Margaret is worn out by her obligations not just to her needy husband-to-be but to all the men in her life. In “The Ugliest Boy,” Justin develops an odd friendship with Steven, his girlfriend’s brother. Steven was disfigured by fire in a childhood accident. Justin bears wounds more deeply hidden. The two forge a strange bond based on their anger and pain. Crouse’s stories often involve people trapped on the margins of society, confronted by diminishing possibilities and various forms of mental illness. The junior executive in “Code” worries about his job—and his sanity—amid a sudden and wide-sweeping corporate layoff. A manic-depressive father and his teenage daughter dress as vampires and embark on a strange Halloween journey through their suburban neighborhood in the darkly humorous “Morte Infinita.” In “Swimming in the Dark” a family gives up on itself. Shredded slowly over the years since the accidental drowning of the eldest son, the remaining family members seek their own separate peace, however imperfect. The men and women in Copy Cats are unwilling and often unable to differentiate reality from fantasy. Cursed with what one of them calls “a pollution of ideas,” these are people at war with their own imaginations.

Ice Age

Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335142
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ice Age written by Robert Anderson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories in Robert Anderson's debut collection are an inventive and daring foray into the world of the absurd. Leading us across a wide range of settings, from rural Texas to 1930s Spain to a Gulf War field hospital, Anderson shifts our view of the world to incorporate a set of characters slightly off-center and intriguing in their eccentricity. As we are tossed from one bizarre circumstance to the next, Anderson's sophisticated, sometimes playful prose combines the concrete with the surreal to convince us that we know very little about the world we complacently inhabit.

What We Do with the Wreckage

Author : Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353736
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.

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."

Light Skin Gone to Waste

Author : Toni Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820363073
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Light Skin Gone to Waste written by Toni Ann Johnson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn’t know. With that, we’re introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They’re cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They’re also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they’ve made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family’s money, education, and determination can’t free her from. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family.

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.

Winter Money

Author : Andy Plattner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344591
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Winter Money written by Andy Plattner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner’s stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there’s a better life, just over the horizon, after the next race. The title story depicts the life of a jockey agent who has seen some bad breaks but knows in his heart he can turn things around if he can just get some “winter money” to make a fresh start in Florida. In “Chandelier,” a bankrupt horse breeder risks everything again in an attempt to save a friend’s farm. “Eldorado” is the story of a young horse groom convinced an old car will be good luck for him, even though it could break down over the next hill. Life at a race track is as desperately unpredictable as the next race, but the people bound to this life live only when they are taking chances. The lies they tell themselves and others run with reality to create new truths. The men and women of Winter Money live in motel rooms that rent by the week, where strangers can change the course of lives. Love and compassion come from unexpected sources, and, as a result, dreams and desired are nurtured and sometimes, against the odds, sustained.

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.

The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men

Author : Randy F. Nelson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344435
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men written by Randy F. Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mechanical men in these stories—Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another—are cut off in some way from contemporary culture. Sometimes in these stories, which Randy F. Nelson calls "thought experiments about values in conflict," the characters are like the Native American prison guard in "Escape": Rifkin thinks that atonement is possible even for fugitive killers. Others are less sanguine. In "Breakers," a corporate hitman arrives on a forgettable island off the African coast. His mission: to shut down a hellish, polluting, ship-demolition business. His nemesis: a lawyer, now gone Heart-of-Darkness crazy, who preceded him years earlier for the same purpose. The bottom drops out in other stories, rearranging all reference points to good and bad, true and false. In "Abduction," for instance, a distraught young woman summons a tabloid reporter to a grubby hotel room, where the now-lifeless alien who had invaded her body lies wrapped in a sheet. Nelson once explained his motivations by alluding to a line in a Gabriel García Márquez story. A crowd of villagers are gazing upon a man, "but even though they were looking at him, there was no room for him in their imagination." "Stories and characters and situations that ask the imagination to accommodate something bigger, further, deeper—that's what I'm after," said Nelson.

The Green Tiger

Author : Barbara Goldoftas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195135113
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Green Tiger written by Barbara Goldoftas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Philippines was once famous for the beauty of its reef-ringed islands, white beaches, and lush forests. In less than a half-century, its forests were felled, its oceans over-fished, and its coral reefs destroyed. The rapid harvest of once-abundant resources has brought droughts, deadly flash floods, and the collapse of vital fisheries. As the rural economy weakened and millions migrated to cities, they overwhelmed the urban infrastructure. Today, the Philippines stands as an example of the profound and sweeping consequences of ecological decline. In The Green Tiger, Barbara Goldoftas documents this tragic trajectory. But hers is not a story of hopelessness and inevitable defeat. In lyrical, unflinching prose, she traces the struggle for conservation in the Philippines, from isolated villages to large cities, and in the process illustrates the surprising ways in which conservation and economic growth can effectively co-exist."--Publisher's website.