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The Houseguest: And Other Stories

Author : Amparo Dávila
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228223
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Houseguest: And Other Stories written by Amparo Dávila and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.

Houseguest and Other Stories

Author : J. P. Kansas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563339240
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Houseguest and Other Stories written by J. P. Kansas and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

End of the Tiger and Other Stories

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307826864
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book End of the Tiger and Other Stories written by John D. MacDonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End of the Tiger and Other Stories, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. As prolific a novelist as John D. MacDonald was in his time, his output as a short-story writer is simply astonishing. All told, just a fraction of the five hundred pieces he produced as a working writer were anthologized, and End of the Tiger and Other Stories is the first of just a few such collections. Although renowned primarily as a noir author, these fifteen handpicked gems showcase MacDonald’s tremendous range. Written between 1947 and 1966, during the golden age of short fiction in America, and appearing in such national magazines as Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal, these stories are a timeless testament to a writer at the top of his craft. This collection includes “Hangover,” “The Big Blue,” “The Trouble with Erica,” “Long Shot,” “Looie Follows Me,” “Blurred View,” “The Loveliest Girl in the World,” “Triangle,” “The Bear Trap,” “A Romantic Courtesy,” “The Fast Loose Money,” “The Straw Witch,” “End of the Tiger,” “The Trap of Solid Gold,” and “Afternoon of the Hero.” Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz Praise for John D. MacDonald “The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King “My favorite novelist of all time.”—Dean Koontz “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut “A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76

Author : Katherine D. McCann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322795
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76 written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.

The Houseguest

Author : Kim Brooks
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619029448
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Houseguest written by Kim Brooks and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "evocative" historical novel set on the eve of America's involvement in World War II that follows a Russian immigrant family who agree to take in a dazzling Jewish actress to save her from the atrocities raging through Europe (The New York Times). It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant and small–town junkyard owner, has become disenchanted with his life. So when his friend Max Hoffman, a local rabbi with a dark past, asks Abe to take in a European refugee, he agrees, unaware that the woman coming to live with him is a volatile and alluring actress named Ana Beidler. Ana regales the Auer family with tales of her lost stardom and charms and mystifies Abe with her glamour and unabashed sexuality, forcing him to confront his own desire as well as the ghost of his dead brother. As news filters out of Europe, American Jews struggle to make sense of the atrocities. Some want to bury their heads in the sand while others want to create a Jewish army that would fight Hitler and promote bold, wide–spread rescue initiatives. And when a popular Manhattan synagogue is burned to the ground, our characters begin to feel the drumbeat of war is marching ever closer to home. Set on the eve of America's involvement in World War II, The Houseguest examines a little–known aspect of the war and highlights the network of organizations seeking to help Jews abroad, just as masses of people seeking to escape Europe are turned away from American shores. It moves seamlessly from the Yiddish theaters of Second Avenue to the junkyards of Utica to the covert world of political activists, Jewish immigrants, and the stars and discontents of New York's Yiddish stage. Ultimately, The Houseguest is a moving story about identity, family, and the decisions that define who we will become.

The House Guest

Author : Barbara Anderson
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 0864737122
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The House Guest written by Barbara Anderson and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As ususal Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.

Post-Global Aesthetics

Author : Gesine Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110762218
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Post-Global Aesthetics written by Gesine Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror

Author : Becky Siegel Spratford
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 083893742X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror written by Becky Siegel Spratford and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the zombies, ghouls, and vampires which inhabit many of its books, the popularity of horror fiction is unstoppable. Even if you don’t happen to be a fan yourself, you won’t be “scared” to advise readers on finding their next great fright thanks to the astute guidance provided by horror expert Spratford in her updated guide. This definitive resource for library workers at any level of experience or familiarity with horror fiction details the state of the genre right now, including its appeal factors and key authors, assisting readers in getting up to speed quickly; presents ten annotated lists of suggested titles, all published since 2000, each with a short introduction providing historical context; delves into horror movies, TV shows, podcasts, and other formats; and offers abundant marketing advice, programming options, and pointers on additional resources.

Out of This World

Author : Rachel S. Cordasco
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052919
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Out of This World written by Rachel S. Cordasco and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.

Weird Fiction

Author : Michael Cisco
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030924505
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Weird Fiction written by Michael Cisco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it. Focusing on the sources of narrative content—how the content is produced and what makes something weird—Michael Cisco engages with theories from Deleuze and Guattari to explain how genres work and to understand the relationship between identity and the ordinary. Cisco also uses these theories to examine the supernatural not merely as a horde of tropes, but as a recognition of the infinity of experience in defiance of limiting norms. The book also traces the sociopolitical implications of weird fiction, studying the differentiation of major and minor literatures. Through an articulated theoretical model and close textual analysis, readers will learn not only what weird fiction is, but how and why it is produced.

The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806123530
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, based on Cherokee history, folklore, and experience, reflect the depth of historical experience, as well as the range of contemporary life and values of this enduring Native American people

Subjunctive Aesthetics

Author : Carolyn Fornoff
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826506194
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Subjunctive Aesthetics written by Carolyn Fornoff and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twenty-first century, Mexico has escalated extractive concessions at the same time that it has positioned itself as an international leader in the fight against climate change. Cultural production emergent from this contradiction frames this impasse as a crisis of imagination. Subjunctive Aesthetics studies how contemporary writers, filmmakers, and visual artists grapple with the threat that climate change and extractivist policies pose to Mexico's present and future. It explores how artists rise to the challenge of envisioning alternative forms of territoriality (ways of being in relation to the environment) through strategies ranging from rewriting to counterfactual speculation. Whereas ecocritical studies have often focused on art's evidentiary role—its ability to visualize and prove the urgency of environmental damage—author Carolyn Fornoff argues that what unites the artists under consideration is their use of more hypothetical, uncertain representational modes, or "subjunctive aesthetics." In English, the subjunctive is a grammatical mode that articulates the imagined, desired, and possible. In the Spanish language, it is even more widely used to express doubts, denials, value judgments, and emotions. Each chapter of Subjunctive Aesthetics takes up one of these modalities to examine how Mexican artists, writers, and filmmakers activate approaches to the planet not just as it is, but as it could be or should be.

The Houseguest

Author : Thomas Berger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743260708
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Houseguest written by Thomas Berger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses' summer home, Chuck fails to appear. When Chuck finally does surface, he is no longer sweet and charming, but rather has become aggressive and arrogant, abusing each family member in turn. Each family member that is, except the fellow outsider, Lydia. Once Chuck rescues her from the dangerous undertow of the ocean, Lydia can't help but feel obligated to him, even after his uninvited advances to her while she's half asleep. Slowly it becomes apparent to the family that Chuck isn't anyone's guest but rather a perfect stranger who wormed his way into their home. Yet the Graveses are so concerned with not offending him by being impolite that they willingly accept the abuse he freely dishes out. In private, however, they all scheme for his undoing. But will anyone muster up the courage? An eerie and clever novel, The Houseguest introduces one of Berger's most dangerous and compelling villains.

The Houseguest

Author : Agnes Rossi
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Houseguest written by Agnes Rossi and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But his most aching memories are of Agnes and of their six-year-old daughter, Maura, who is a constant reminder of the loss he has not yet begun to face.".

A Lady of Expectations and Other Stories

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459244478
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book A Lady of Expectations and Other Stories written by Stephanie Laurens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady of Expectations Jack Lester seeks the perfect bride—one who is attractive and kind, but who also loves him in spite of his wealth. Which is why he keeps this trifling detail hidden. But when Sophie Winterton enters his life, believing he must marry into wealth to run his family's estate, how will he convince her that she is the woman he desires—and that he can be the husband she deserves? Secrets of a Courtesan Eve Nightingale thought she had put her past as mistress to the Duke of Welburn behind her. But when the handsome duke strolls into her small village, she finds it hard to keep her secrets concealed…and to keep her heart from stirring for him once again. How to Woo a Spinster Still unmarried at twenty-eight, Lady Emmaline Daughtry has resigned herself to spinsterhood. Then Captain John Alistair arrives at her door—the very image of the perfect lover of her most private dreams. But can a man with a secret and a woman who's never known love find happiness together?

The Big Fat Indian Wedding and other stories

Author : MYSORE PRABHAKAR
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Big Fat Indian Wedding and other stories written by MYSORE PRABHAKAR and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Fat Indian Wedding' and other stories by Mysore Prabhakar is a heart-warming collection of stories and anecdotes covering everyday life in India. With a touch of Wodehousian humour, and a keen sense of observation and empathy, he explores the moments and memories that make up life in India where the individual, family and community come together to form a rich tapestry. The charms of 'Old Bengaluru' come alive in his easy, narrative style while recollections of his life in the military will keep you engrossed and well-entertained.

The House Guest

Author : Deborah L. Norris
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1634136985
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The House Guest written by Deborah L. Norris and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Guest takes readers on a nostalgic journey to Tilden, a quaint community in 1950s Nebraska. At the center of the story is Maggie Davis, a middle-aged widow, heiress to a grand Victorian manor--now a bed-and-breakfast--which Maggie shares with her spunky daughter Jenna. The kitchen table is the epicenter of the manor, where no topics are off limits and guests share the latest gossip. Maggie's outspoken neighbor delights in keeping everyone on guard with her tirades, but is frequently reined in by an elderly, equally forthright family member. Maggie finds herself struggling with the painful memories of her husband's tragic death, as well as the stirrings in her heart associated with a new house guest. A scheme to swindle Maggie out of her property rides on the heels of a sudden, unexpected death. Set against a backdrop of humor, tragedy and love, the story culminates with an emotional twist.