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Still Life and Other Stories

Author : Junzo Shono
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458761843
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Still Life and Other Stories written by Junzo Shono and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 stories in this collection by Japanese writer Junzo Shono are linked by the daily life of a husband and wife and their children. The stories are like the back of a tapestry where threads seem to cross randomly. Births, weddings, school activities, a suicide attempt - all occur out of view. Readers understand crucial events through ordinary days. But these quiet tales have a cumulative power. Toys, birds, and playing cards relate to human lives as portents, parallels, parodies. The mother, with her secret sorrows, and the puzzled, bemused father savor reveries and survive unexplained misfortunes. Shono's vivid snapshot technique, the layering of images, events, and conversations, creates an effect Western readers may find more akin to an Ozu film crossed with haiku than to traditional short stories.

Stories of Your Life and Others

Author : Ted Chiang
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1931520895
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Your Life and Others written by Ted Chiang and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

Still Life with Monkey

Author : Katharine Weber
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 158988129X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Monkey written by Katharine Weber and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “Rich and compelling . . . Her characters are vividly, achingly real, including the tiny, furry one at the novel’s center.”―Ann Packer, author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier “Stark and compelling . . . rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn’t sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become “a broken series of unsuccessful gestures.” Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan’s will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey―a tufted capuchin named Ottoline―to assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncan’s life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough? Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die.

Still Life

Author : A.S. Byatt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684835037
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by A.S. Byatt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to 'The Virgin in the Garden, ' in the 1950s, Stephanie Potter, now married to a clergyman, is conflicted about her domestic life and her strivings for intellectual fulfillment; her brilliant sister Frederica eagerly embarks on her academic (and sexual) education at Cambridge University; and their troubled brother Marcus painfully tries to find friendship and love.

Still Life

Author : Rebecca Shirley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Rebecca Shirley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Author : Elizabeth Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824607
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt written by Elizabeth Hicks and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which English writer A. S. Byatt’s visual still lifes (descriptions of real or imagined artworks) and what are termed “verbal still lifes” (scenes such as laid tables, rooms and market stalls) are informed by her veneration of both realism and writing. It examines Byatt’s adoption of the Barthesian concept of textual pleasure, showing how her ekphrastic descriptions involve consumption and take time to unfold for the reader, thereby highlighting the limitations of painting. It also investigates the ways in which Byatt’s still lifes demonstrate her debts to English modernist author Virginia Woolf, French writer Marcel Proust, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of nineteenth-century Britain. A number of Byatt’s verbal still lifes are read as semiotic markers of her characters, particularly with regard to economic status and class. Further, her descriptions uniting food and sexuality are perceived as part of her overall representation of pleasure. Finally, Byatt’s employment of vanitas iconography in many of her portrayals of death is discussed showing how her recurring motif of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” teases out the still life’s inherent tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.

Still Life & Other Stories

Author : Amanda Catherine Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Still Life & Other Stories written by Amanda Catherine Moore and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still Life & Other Stories consists of five short stories that vary widely in perspective, structure, setting, and theme. Three stories are written in close third, whereas "Many Worlds" and "The Lover" are written in the first person. Protagonists are male and female, teen-aged and adult. They range in age from 14, as with Zane in "Many Worlds," to 38 year-old Earl of "Mint Condition." The title story features an innovative structure that combines past and future in sections that are demarcated by changes in address, each address representing a formative experience in the life of the protagonist. "Islands" and "Mint Condition" are inspired by the devastating effects of the post-industrial American landscape on the people of rural, working-class areas whose livelihoods have depended on now vanishing industries. These settings are stark and homogenous, and the protagonists of both stories are eventually led to question the assumptions about gender and culture inherent to their communities. In fact, one of the collection's major thematic concerns is the nature of identity and the ways in which it is a social construct. The collection also interrogates the ways in which individuals experience the passage of time. Both teenagers and adults have to grow up fast, to adapt their hopes to the changing times and to the limits of earthly possibility.

Still Life with Fish and Other Stories

Author : Laurence Klinger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781401031848
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Fish and Other Stories written by Laurence Klinger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office clerks try to escape the reality of their tedious lives through the ancient art of archery. Two strangers trade fantasies under a fig tree in the center of the Universe. A prostitute is offered a small fortune to reveal her naked soul. Still life with fish is a book about people and their struggle to understand a world that is, at once, logical and absurd a fascinating journey charged with wisdom and imagination, tragedy and humor. Collectively, these stories form an inspiring mural of the human condition.

The Fuss About Queens and Other Stories

Author : Darius Cooper
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9384225606
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Fuss About Queens and Other Stories written by Darius Cooper and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fuss About Queens and Other Stories, a brilliant collection of short stories by Darius Cooper, delves into disparate universes, including the charming world of the Parsis in Mumbai, caught in a cultural and historical time warp, with the fire temple, the tower of silence, dusty tomes of Dostoevsky, and the British monarch’s portrait in a drawing room, set up with period furniture a truly stunning mosaic. Talking Points: Includes some of the finest short stories by the authorEach story provides a glimpse into the humanistic outlook of the writerEncompasses a variety of socially relevant themes that are close to the writer’s heart

Dear Science and Other Stories

Author : Katherine McKittrick
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012579
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dear Science and Other Stories written by Katherine McKittrick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.

Modern British Women Writers

Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016585
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Women Writers written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Archie's Sweetheart, and Other Stories

Author : Ellen Mulley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Archie's Sweetheart, and Other Stories written by Ellen Mulley and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Back To Basics And Other Stories

Author : Giles Ekins
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Back To Basics And Other Stories written by Giles Ekins and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back To Basics And Other Stories is an eclectic mix of 20 stories from Giles Ekins, author of Sinistrari and Gallows Walk. This anthology includes the whimsical, award-winning 'Back to Basics,' the comedic 'Call me Ruby' and 'A Long, Long, Finish.' Historical tales in the collection include the acclaimed 'Shadows of a Dream,' 'The Lemonade Stall' and 'Portents,' while 'As it was, as it is,' is a tongue-in-cheek satire on student life in the 1980's. Rounding up the collection is 'In the Shimmering Light of Dawn', a heartbreaking love story. This anthology will delight readers of all reading tastes.

Still Life

Author : Gillian Marchenko
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830899243
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Gillian Marchenko and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gillian Marchenko, dealing with depression means learning to accept and treat it as a physical illness, while continuing as a wife and mother of four, two with special needs. How can she care for her family when she can't even get out of bed? Her story is real and raw, not one of quick fixes. But hope remains as she discovers that living with depression is still life.

Still Life and Other Stories

Author : Vicky Kepple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Still Life and Other Stories written by Vicky Kepple and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bliss, and Other Stories

Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513276190
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Bliss, and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the day of Lord Saito Gonji’s birthday arrives, Gonji celebrates with dread, knowing that in a week, he will be married. Sent away in his youth for samurai training, and then to higher education, Gonji is very connected to his studies. After his intelligence is proven, his professors even tell Gonji that he would do great things for Japan one day. However, since he is the youngest son in his family, Gonji is expected to marry—a social expectation that he cannot get around. Now, on his birthday, he is expected to marry a childhood friend, Ohano in one week, which will greatly interfere with his studies. When his family notice how upset Gonji is over the arranged marriage, they grant him one week of pure freedom, allowing him to do whatever he chooses. Soon into the week, Gonji meets a famous dancer. Known by the stage name of Spider, the dancer was at the height of her career after being trained by the most celebrated geisha in Japan. When Spider and Gonji become intimate during the week, their fleeting encounter soon proves to complicate the plans Gonji’s parents made for him. Featuring complex and memorable characters as well as detailed descriptions of Japanese customs and landscapes, The Honorable Miss Moonlight depicts a vivid portrait of 20th century Japan. With themes of gender, sexuality, identity, and a close perspective of the honor/shame culture of Japan in the 1900s, The Honorable Miss Moonlight is as enlightening as it is entertaining. First published in 1912, The Honorable Miss Moonlight is one of Onoto Watanna’s most famous works, yet is rarely found in print. This special edition features a stunning cover design and is printed in an easy-to-read font. With these accommodations, this edition caters to contemporary readers by restoring the novel to modern standards while preserving the original intricacy of Onoto Watanna’s work.

Still Life

Author : D. D. Robson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512224610
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by D. D. Robson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man confronts the horror which inhabits a Tuscan farmhouse; an obsessively ambitious pianist grapples with his nemesis; an urban cyclist wreaks a bizarre revenge; an Italian au pair receives a celestial visitation. In these darkly thoughtful stories by D D Robson, revenge and disappointment, melancholy and hubris sit side by side.