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Author : Prema Prakāsha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Shoulder Bag and Other Stories written by Prema Prakāsha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prema Prakāsha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177701258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Shoulder Bag and Other Stories written by Prema Prakāsha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yūko Tsushima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213561
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories written by Yūko Tsushima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories by one of Japan's most important women authors concern the struggles of women in a repressive society. An unwed mother introduces her children to their father . . . A woman confronts the "other woman". . . A young single mother resents her children . . . These stories touch on universal themes of passion and jealousy, motherhood's joys and sorrows, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment.
Author : Hope Robinson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035838699
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book A Question and Other Stories written by Hope Robinson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories weaves together themes of faith, humour, the rawness of life, and the depths of tragedy. Each narrative poses a thought-provoking question that lingers in the mind: Can certain mysteries ever be truly answered? One story unfolds with two letters bearing the words, ‘We can put this behind us,’ leading us to ponder whether the characters truly can move past their shared history. Another tale delves into the emotional turmoil of a wife deemed intellectually inferior by her spouse, exploring her poignant and powerful reaction. Amidst these narratives, there is a story of hope realized in the birth of a child, a symbol of the future and new beginnings. In a surprising twist, what appears to be an extramarital affair turns out to be something entirely unexpected, challenging our perceptions and assumptions. Each story in this collection offers a unique lens on life, presenting a tapestry of experiences that range from the everyday to the extraordinary. Together, they form a mosaic of human experience, reflecting the diversity and complexity of life itself.
Author : Lucy Honig
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978792
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Truly Needy And Other Stories written by Lucy Honig and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeSelected by Charles JohnsonThese nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic politicians, and "quality-of-life" campaigns as they are prey to grinding poverty, dangerous streets, and their own haunting memories. Delving into Lucy Honig's fiction, one is willingly drawn into an intimacy with these resilient, but flawed characters—among them, a woman who cleans a beauty salon, a high school kid who's lost a parent, a runaway Cambodian bride, an actress, and a homeless woman. Crossing paths, these difficult characters often misunderstand and sometimes demean each other, yet they also redeem and rescue one other in odd and unexpected ways. In The Truly Needy, Lucy Honig has created a heartbreaking, imaginative world that is the American urban landscape.
Author : Tessa Hadley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312425999
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Sunstroke and Other Stories written by Tessa Hadley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.
Author : Cindy Hall Ranii
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468547313
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Parakeet Races and Other Stories written by Cindy Hall Ranii and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parakeet Races and Other Stories is a memoir that recounts the challenges and escapades of a family of six children in the 1950s which faces the premature death of its mother. Always authentic, each self-contained story can be read in just a few richly rewarding minutes that may leave the reader laughing out loud, crying, or both. Together the stories recount the collective memories of a remarkable set of siblings, three boys and three girls, the father who gives it his very best, and the mother whom the children can barely remember. The stories explore the mystery of the mothers death and reflect how the death of a parent in that era was often a topic not to be discussed or processed. The author, Cindy Hall Ranii, is the oldest daughter in the Hall Family, and beyond sharing the memories of her childhood and that of her siblings, she also shares her experiences as a world traveler, first as a teenager in Finland, then as a college student in India and finally as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran. With her keen powers of observation and respectfulness of different cultures she gives the reader the opportunity to eavesdrop on other peoples and other places. In the final segment of Parakeet Races Dr. Ranii takes the reader into the world of disability. Stricken with Transverse Myelitis, a rare neuro-immunologic disorder, she went from playing golf one day to being paralyzed from the chest down four days later. Her accounts of this chapter of her life are told with the same delicious, rhythmic writing style as the other two segments of the book. The author skillfully weaves her stories from decade to decade, taking the reader on a journey that captivates, entertains and challenges.
Author : Michael Cantwell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491704241
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Rosa’S Gift and Other Stories written by Michael Cantwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a young writer trying to win a girl to a boy grappling with confusion about sin, each protagonist in this collection of nine short stories experiences a journey, an encounter, or a revelation that transforms them. In Rosas Gift and Other Stories, author Michael Cantwell presents these stories reflecting the joys and sorrows of all stages of human life. In the title story, Rosas Gift, Peter Collins, a semiretired commercial artist from New York, visits Guatemala, where he studies Spanish. As he wanders around Antigua, he meets a teenage Mayan indigene, a little girl who sells trinkets to tourists. Peter is inspired to help her get an education. In doing so, he is forced to confront the extreme poverty of Mayan life. Christmas in the Great Depression tells the story of Philip Nason, a twelve-year-old boy who wants a bicycle for Christmas. Because of the Depression, his father explains a bicycle is something the family cannot afford. Phil responds by waging a campaign, drawing cartoons promoting his wish and posting them all over the house and on the windshield of his fathers car. As Cantwells characters receive insights that help them meet the challenges of life, he makes each personality and destination come alive, from Depression-era Detroit to a confessional in a dark church in a New England city to the streets of Havana.
Author : Tom Nolan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979229359
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Wishbone Creek and Other Stories written by Tom Nolan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories runs a gamut of themes, from slices of odd lives, to suspense, a bit of horror, and a story or two that contains some of each.
Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564786021
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Night Soul and Other Stories written by Joseph McElroy and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New stories from a master of American fiction.
Author : G.P. Huffman
Publisher : G
ISBN 13 : 0984575340
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Human Needs and Other Stories written by G.P. Huffman and published by G. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories in this collection explore the vagaries of intimate human relationships. The subjects—a freshly retired couple with a no-longer-young daughter whose behavior still vexes them, two stoic men working adjacent farms in the American Midwest, a pair on the cusp of middle age facing a terminal illness, and a man and woman leaving youthful wandering behind for the grim reality of workaday existence—struggle to find meaning and fulfillment in a world governed by measurement and monetization.
Author : Debra Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811742997
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Great Stories of Hiking the Appalachian Trail written by Debra Smith and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the original trailblazers and the first thruhikers. Reprinted from the out-of-print Rodale 2-volume Hiking the Appalachian Trail (1975). New foreword by Dave Startzell, executive director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Author : Greg Herren
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635554144
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Survivor's Guilt and Other Stories written by Greg Herren and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Katrina survivor waits for rescue on his roof in the brutal heat, reflecting on the life choices that brought him to this moment. A young woman discovers there’s more to her perfect man than she thought. A gay journalist travels to Italy to interview his teen idol, only to discover a darkness in the Tuscan hills. A gay man cleans his home, reflecting on his sociopathic criminal mother. Chanse MacLeod returns to his hometown to help his younger brother, accused of murder. A daughter keeps her father’s legacy alive while hiding his darkest secrets. Including five new stories written for this collection (along with the first-ever Chanse MacLeod short story), Greg Herren’s tales of murder, crime, and the darkness that lives inside all of us are evocative of the proud Southern Gothic tradition of writers and are now available, for the first time, in a single collection.
Author : Greg Hrbek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803237790
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories written by Greg Hrbek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek’s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human—and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors—and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real. In “Sagittarius,” selected for The Best American Short Stories, a mother and father search a dark forest for their missing newborn, who is either a child with profound birth defects or a miraculous creature. In “False Positive,” a ghostly girl visits her biological father ten years after being aborted in utero. In “Bereavement,” a marriage is falling apart following a child’s accidental death, but a combination of myth and technology provides hope for a second life. Fantastic, horrific, painfully familiar, these stories are the work of a consummate storyteller.
Author : Lynda Clark
Publisher : Fairlight Books
ISBN 13 : 1912054655
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories written by Lynda Clark and published by Fairlight Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In ' Ghillie's Mum', shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In ' Total Transparency', the protagonist is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ' Blanks', people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in ' Dreaming in Quantum', there's a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.
Author : Gulzar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9351941175
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Nirmala and Other Stories: Screenplays by Gulzar written by Gulzar and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulzar is one of the best known and acknowledged poet lyricist and director, honoured for his sensitivity, best reflected through his writings and treatment of films. Saba Basheer is a poet, author and a translator. Her first book was a collection of poems, Memory Past (2006) brought out by Writers’ Workshop. I Swallowed the Moon: The Poetry of Gulzar (2013), is the analysis of the poetry of Gulzar, which culminated from her PhD thesis, and is now being translated in Hindi and Urdu.
Author : Hans Brinckmann
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612041957
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills and Other Stories written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this striking and highly engaging collection of stories, author Hans Brinckmann takes us into the heart of his adopted country, Japan. Highlighting the intriguing surroundings and cultural details, each story draws the reader into an extraordinary experience. The offerings include A Leap into the Light, the compelling tale of a Dutch businessman's secretive life with the young daughter of his late Japanese mistress; Kyoto Bus Stop, about the chance encounter between a visitor from Europe and a mysterious young French woman in Kyoto; Pets in Marriage, which chronicles a Japanese married couple and their respective preference for cats and dogs, which comes to a head at the foot of Mt. Fuji; Twice upon a Plum Tree, an exploration of a Dutch diplomat's ambivalence about a Japanese woman he once loved; and the title story, The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills, about a Chicago-based lawyer who moves his family to Japan to find the truth of his origins once and for all. Hans Brinckmann was born in The Hague, came to Japan as a young man to work in a bank, and stayed twenty-four years.He subsequently lived in London, Curacao, Amsterdam, New York, and Sydney before returning to live in Tokyo once again in 2003. He quit banking early to turn to writing. For details of his publications see www.habri.jp http: //SBPRA.com/HansBrinckman
