The Cage Keeper

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428230
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cage Keeper by : Andre Dubus III

Download or read book The Cage Keeper written by Andre Dubus III and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. And in the award-winning "Forky," an ex-con is haunted by the punishment he receives just as he is being released into the world. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.

House of Sand and Fog

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393046974
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book House of Sand and Fog written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.

The Garden of Last Days

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393041651
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Last Days written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

Bluesman

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375725164
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Bluesman written by Andre Dubus III and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick — a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his — and the nation's — unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.

Gone So Long: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244113
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Gone So Long: A Novel written by Andre Dubus III and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become. Gone So Long is a riveting family drama about an ex-con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he hasn’t seen in forty years, and the grandmother angry enough to kill him. A profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish to be, and the ones—shaped by chance and circumstance, as well as character—that we can’t escape, it confirms Andre Dubus’s reputation as a novelist whose “compassion is unsentimental and unblinking, total and unwavering” (Paul Harding).

Tag Man

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429974842
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Tag Man by : Archer Mayor

Download or read book Tag Man written by Archer Mayor and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Archer Mayor's Vermont police procedurals are the best thing going..." --New York Times Book Review Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits,) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The Press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact, he's quickly running for his life, for what he discovers in one of these houses appears to be proof of a heinous string of murders. But is it? Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence, while the burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man's-land between the police and the villains. With no one knowing what to believe, or who to trust, with Tag Man running for his life in a way he never imagined possible, as no one knows who's watching as they sleep, or who truly did what, the Tag Man is critically acclaimed author Archer Mayor at his very finest.

The Little Mischief-maker and Other Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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The Storyspinner

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481405675
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Storyspinner by : Becky Wallace

Download or read book The Storyspinner written by Becky Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama and danger abound in this “intricately woven” (Shannon Messenger, author of the Sky Fall series) fantasy realm where dukes play a game for the throne, magical warriors race to find the missing heir, and romance blossoms where it is least expected. In a world where dukes plot their way to the throne, a Performer’s life can get tricky. And in Johanna Von Arlo’s case, it can be fatal. Expelled from her troupe after her father’s death, Johanna is forced to work for the handsome Lord Rafael DeSilva. Too bad they don’t get along. But while Johanna’s father’s death was deemed an accident, the Keepers aren’t so sure. The Keepers, a race of people with magical abilities, are on a quest to find the princess—the same princess who is supposed to be dead and whose throne the dukes are fighting over. But they aren’t the only ones looking for her. And in the wake of their search, murdered girls keep turning up—girls who look exactly like the princess, and exactly like Johanna. With dukes, Keepers, and a killer all after the princess, Johanna finds herself caught up in political machinations for the throne, threats on her life, and an unexpected romance that could change everything.

Short Story Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Telling Stories, Talking Craft

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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602351791
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Telling Stories, Talking Craft by : Christopher Feliciano Arnold

Download or read book Telling Stories, Talking Craft written by Christopher Feliciano Arnold and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling Stories, Talking Craft is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University’s international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.

Conversations with Andre Dubus

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628468017
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Andre Dubus written by Olivia Carr Edenfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over three decades, celebrated fiction writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999) published seven collections of short stories, two collections of essays, two collections of previously published stories, two novels, and a novella. While this is an impressive publishing record for any writer, for Dubus, who suffered a near-fatal accident mid-career, it is near miraculous. Just after midnight on July 23, 1986, after stopping to assist two stranded motorists, Dubus was struck by a car. His right leg was crushed, and his left leg had to be amputated above the knee. After months of hospital stays and surgeries, he would suffer chronic pain for the rest of his life. However, when he gave his first interview after the accident, his deepest fear was that he would never write again. This collection of interviews traces his career beginning in 1967 with the publication of his novel The Lieutenant, to his final interview given right before his death February 24, 1999. In between are conversations that focus on his shift to essay writing during his long recovery period as well as those that celebrate his return to fiction with the publication of “The Colonel's Wife,” in 1993. Dubus would also share stories surrounding his Louisiana childhood, his three marriages, the writers who influenced him, and his deep Catholic faith.

Words Without Borders

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307493385
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Words Without Borders written by Alane Salierno Mason and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collection transports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature. In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Günter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouz–have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their work–short stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novels–appears here in English for the first time. The Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman introduces us to a story of extraordinary poise and spiritual intelligence by the Argentinian writer Juan Forn. The Romanian writer Norman Manea shares with us the sexy, sinister, and thrillingly avant garde fiction of his homeland’s leading female novelist. The Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri spotlights the Bengali writer Parashuram, whose hilarious comedy of manners imagines what might have happened if Britain had been colonized by Bengal. And Roberto Calasso writes admiringly of his fellow Italian Giorgio Manganelli, whose piece celebrates the Indian city of Madurai. Every piece here–be it from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbean–is a discovery, a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange. Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman

Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes written by Keane, James T. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2024-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conversations with Andre Dubus

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037850
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Andre Dubus written by Andre Dubus and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the author of Adultery and Other Choices, In the Bedroom, and The Last Worthless Evening

Aerogrammes and Other Stories

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Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 818400334X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Aerogrammes and Other Stories by : Tania James

Download or read book Aerogrammes and Other Stories written by Tania James and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men and women around the world. In “Lion and Panther in London,” a turn-of-the-century Indian wrestler arrives in London desperate to prove himself champion of the world, only to find the city mysteriously absent of challengers. In “Light & Luminous,” a gifted dance instructor falls victim to her own vanity when a student competition allows her a final encore. In “The Scriptological Review: A Last Letter from the Editor,” a young man obsessively studies his father’s handwriting in the hope of making sense of his death. And in the marvelous “What to Do with Henry,” a white woman from Ohio takes in the illegitimate child her husband left behind in Sierra Leone, as well as an orphaned chimpanzee who comes to anchor this strange new family. With exuberance and compassion, Tania James once again draws us into the lives of damaged, driven, and beautifully complicated characters who quietly strive for human connection.

Drowned Sprat and Other Stories

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Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775530256
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Drowned Sprat and Other Stories written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer. These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson's fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sharp wit, with characters as diverse as a woman arranging a second wife for her husband, a criminal returning to the care of his mother, and a widow who hears an octopus call her name.