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The Last Free Man and Other Stories

Author : Lewis Woolston
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1925536882
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Last Free Man and Other Stories written by Lewis Woolston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A spectacularly understated page-turner. Each story enters a world apart, often spoken with a poetic dry wit, sometimes acerbic to the point of controversial, honest to the point of brutal. Some people and situations are so funny you'll wish you'd been there. Many times you wonder how some have survived - some don't. From Ceduna, Madura, Mundrabilla, Kimba, and Yalata near the dog fence, Lewis has met, worked, and lived with the creme-de-la-creme of drifters and transients, as well as the fourth and fifth generational outback station owners. In the great Australian outback - among the dry red soil, the mulga and saltbushes, where the kestrels observe and keep their secrets - beware who you're talking to." Helen Travers, author of 'A Little Lower Than Angels'

The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035159
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Stories and Other Stories

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312756X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Last Stories and Other Stories written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018 In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

The Last Tortilla

Author : Sergio Troncoso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653215X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Last Tortilla written by Sergio Troncoso and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She asked me if I liked them. And what could I say? They were wonderful." From the very beginning of Sergio Troncoso's celebrated story "Angie Luna," we know we are in the hands of a gifted storyteller. Born of Mexican immigrants, raised in El Paso, and now living in New York City, Troncoso has a rare knack for celebrating life. Writing in a straightforward, light-handed style reminiscent of Grace Paley and Raymond Carver, he spins charming tales that reflect his experiences in two worlds. Troncoso's El Paso is a normal town where common people who happen to be Mexican eat, sleep, fall in love, and undergo epiphanies just like everyone else. His tales are coming-of-age stories from the Mexican-American border, stories of the working class, stories of those coping with the trials of growing old in a rapidly changing society. He also explores New York with vignettes of life in the big city, capturing its loneliness and danger. Beginning with Troncoso's widely acclaimed story "Angie Luna," the tale of a feverish love affair in which a young man rediscovers his Mexican heritage and learns how much love can hurt, these stories delve into the many dimensions of the human condition. We watch boys playing a game that begins innocently but takes a dangerous turn. We see an old Anglo woman befriending her Mexican gardener because both are lonely. We witness a man terrorized in his New York apartment, taking solace in memories of lost love. Two new stories will be welcomed by Troncoso's readers. "My Life in the City" relates a transplanted Texan's yearning for companionship in New York, while "The Last Tortilla" returns to the Southwest to explore family strains after a mother's death—and the secret behind that death. Each reflects an insight about the human heart that has already established the author's work in literary circles. Troncoso sets aside the polemics about social discomfort sometimes found in contemporary Chicano writing and focuses instead on the moral and intellectual lives of his characters. The twelve stories gathered here form a richly textured tapestry that adds to our understanding of what it is to be human.

The Bicentennial Man

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9781857989328
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book The Bicentennial Man written by Isaac Asimov and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov's single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.

Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories

Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641293624
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Peter Lovesey presents a collection of short fiction spanning fifty years, including the first story he ever published and three brand-new stories. More than fifty years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caught the eye of the great Ruth Rendell, whose praise ignited Lovesey’s lifelong passion for short form crime fiction. On the occasion of his hundredth short story, Peter Lovesey has assembled this devilishly clever collection, eighteen yarns of mystery, melancholy, and mischief, inhabiting such deadly settings as a theater, a monastery, and the book publishing industry. The collection includes the career-launching story, as well as three never-before-published works. And surprising the author himself, the irascible Bath detective, Peter Diamond, "bulldozed his way" into this volume.

The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History

Author : Erica Barnes
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655428
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History written by Erica Barnes and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic lakeside village of Cazenovia in the scenic Finger Lakes region is one of the jewels of Central New York, and yet very few books have told its story. Cazenovia is a town founded by wealthy men, and much of what has been written about it has focused on the elite and the grand lakeshore mansions in which they lived. In contrast, Barnes and Emerson’s new book chronicles the story of everyday Cazenovia: the fascinating people, places, and history of this 225-year-old community. The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History explores the unheralded, inaccurately told, and long-forgotten tales of the town. Readers will encounter historical characters such as elephant and lion tamer Lucia Zora Card, "The Bravest Woman in the World"; educator Susan Blow, "The Mother of American Kindergarten"; and World War I soldier Cecil Donovan, whose letters home vividly depicted the experience of war for those awaiting his return in Cazenovia.

The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories

Author : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486158381
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight vivid, poignant tales of self-reliant New England women. Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," plus 3 others.

Regression and Other Stories

Author : Andrew Gelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702398X
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Regression and Other Stories written by Andrew Gelman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.

Orange World and Other Stories

Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525656146
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Orange World and Other Stories written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

The First Person and Other Stories

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141900326
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The First Person and Other Stories written by Ali Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Person and Other Stories is the fourth collection of short stories by Ali Smith. The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and - a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'Smith's is a profoundly optimistic vision. These stories are frightening yet funny, and the sheer exuberance and playfulness of her language endows dark matters with a lightness of touch' New Statesman 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'Terrific . . . hurrah for Ali Smith . . . The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these . . . A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' Times 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent

Past and Promise

Author : The Women's Project of New Jersey, Inc.
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604181
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Past and Promise written by The Women's Project of New Jersey, Inc. and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book explores the lives and work of nearly 300 New Jersey women from the Colonial period to the present century. Included are biographies of notable, often nationally known individuals, as well as less celebrated people, whose vibrant personal stories illustrate the richness of women's experiences in New Jersey—and, really, in America—from 1600 to the present. Researched, written and illustrated by The Women's Project of New Jersey, this volume both recovers and re-tells the life stories of women who have helped shape our world. Past and Promise is a long-overdue celebration of the accomplishments of these individuals who succeeded, often against overwhelming odds. Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women incorporates an inclusive view of history that understands the past as the history of all of the people, not merely those who held a monopoly of power. As such this work contains biographies of artists, activists, entertainers, scientists, scholars, teachers, factory and agricultural workers, businesswomen, social engineers, and community builders. This easy-to-use and beautifully presented volume is indexed, and full of illustrations. The biographies are arranged alphabetically within four sections covering the following time periods: 1600-1807, 1808-1865, 1866-1920, and 1921 to the present. Each section is introduced by a historical overview, and each biographical entry includes a brief bibliography for further reading and research. This unique and very readable collection of biographies belongs in every public and personal library and deserves a wide audience of general readers from high school age through college and beyond.

A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803219984
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852?1930), born in Randolph, Massachusetts, began to publish stories about New England in the early 1880s. In the following decades, Freeman drew widespread praise for her intimate portraits of women and her realistic depictions of rural New England life. She published short stories, essays, novels, plays, and children?s books. ø Her stories, written in a clear and direct prose, are remarkable for their unpretentious, sympathetic portrayals of the lives of ordinary New Englanders of Freeman?s era. Many of the stories depict rebellion against oppressive social and private conditions. Others describe conflicting desires for independence and lasting relationships. ø This volume of twenty-eight stories is the first to provide a representative sample of Freeman?s finest work, from all phases of her career. It makes plain why Freeman (in the words of editor Mary R. Reichardt) is widely recognized as an important figure ?in the history of American women?s fiction . . . and the development of the American short story.?

"Master and Man," and Other Parables and Tales

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book "Master and Man," and Other Parables and Tales written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Taker, and Other Stories

Author : Rubem Fonseca
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 193482402X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Taker, and Other Stories written by Rubem Fonseca and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.

The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

Author : Jo Nesbo
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 1039001726
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Jealousy Man and Other Stories written by Jo Nesbo and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, thrilling collection of stories probing twisted minds and vengeful hearts from a true master of suspense. Jo Nesbo is the consummate mystery writer, and his talent for hair-raising suspense and shocking twists are on full display in this inventive and harrowing collection of stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbour; a hired assassin pits his wits against his greatest adversary, another assassin, in a dangerous fight for survival; and an instantly electric connection between passengers on a flight to London may spell romance, or something much more sinister. Contained in this collection are stories of insatiable avarice, unscrupulous lovers, and heartrending fate. With Nesbo's gift for outstanding atmosphere and complex characters, this is a veritable crime lover's delight.

The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories

Author : Hampton Fancher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101600667
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories written by Hampton Fancher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this extraordinary collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These are stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time: in “Narrowing the Divide,” an escaped lab rat winds up in a philosophical conversation with a man whose wife sleeps in the next room; in “Cargot,” a failed actor is reincarnated as a garden snail and avenges himself with a Hollywood producer’s wife; and in “The Black Weasel,” a washed-up bartender finds an unlikely traveling partner in a slow-witted drifter with a suspicious bankroll. These are also stories about survival and instinct, with elements of the absurd and the sublime. The Shape of the Final Dog is a rare literary work that is mordantly funny, deftly written, and bound to delight and entertain.