Author : Mike Bryan
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Afterwordis the afterword to a best-selling novel that doesn’t exist. It is a stunning, deliriously original work of fiction about the nature of faith in the modern world.
Author : Robert Poyton
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995645424
Thirteen haunting tales in the vein of MR James and HP Lovecraft set in the East Anglia Fens
Author : Danny Wallace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1416595538
The inspiration for the new Warner Bros. movie starring Jim Carrey, Wallace's offbeat bestseller reveals what happens when he says yes to absolutely everything for a year.
Author : Dale Salwak
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1587299895
Contains imaginary interviews with deceased British and American authors, including Samuel Johnson, Henry James, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, and others.
Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Picador
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374721173
From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Shriek: An Afterword. An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris—previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed City of Saints and Madmen—Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies. Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by the ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice’s brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies, who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city. After reading this introduction to the Family Shriek—part academic treatise, part tell-all biography—you’ll never look at history in quite the same way.
Author : Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781433101076
This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.
Author : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813916361
"Ellen Glasgow considered Vein of Iron, published in 1935, to be her best work. "No novel has ever meant quite so much to me," she wrote a friend. The critics agreed; the book was favorably reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and outsold all but one other work of fiction in the year of its publication." "Opening in the years just before the First World War and laid in the Valley of Virginia, the book traces the experience of a family with four generations of strong women. Faced with a crisis when the bread-winner, a philosopher-minister, is defrocked for his unorthodox views, the women provide the "vein of iron" which carries the family through removal to Richmond (Queensboro in the book), through war and depression until the final return to the mountains."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2003-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759528276
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King. Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself.
Author : Boori Monty Pryor
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1761062212
BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13 This is a book for everybody. Welcome! Take a seat! And listen carefully, because this story has a heartbeat. Can you feel it, there in your chest? Legendary storyteller Boori Monty Pryor invites us to travel with him from the first footsteps through 80,000+ years of strength, sickness, and immense possibility. From the very first stories and art, to dance, language, and connection with the land, Boori offers a powerful, beautiful, and deeply rich account of Australia's true history, drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, and on his generous instinct to teach and heal. An exquisitely illustrated celebration of the power of storytelling to unite us, how nature connects us, and the wonderful truth that the medicine needed for healing lies within us all.
