The Fahrenheit Twins
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780002008914
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780002008914
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2005-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847674011
Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber's collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, Some Rain Must Fall. It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain's most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of contrasting styles. From achingly sad lost lives, through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness, to biblical innocence and savagery, Faber's characters are redeemed, abandoned, beloved and laid bare.
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443401595
One of the most original and daring writers in English letters, Michel Faber shows his incredible mastery of wildly diverse literary forms with this, his long-awaited second collection of stories. Faber’s characters in these 17 fictions are often dislocated—fragile beings confronting moments of fracture—in worlds that are both real and surreal. From the achingly sad lives of “The Safehouse” to the moments of exquisite happiness in “Vanilla-right Like Eminem” to the futuristic savagery of “The Fahrenheit Twins,” these are fearless stories that crack our humanity wide open. With his brilliant characterization and pitch-perfect prose, Michel Faber has produced a short story collection that will seal his reputation as one of our most arresting and gifted writers.
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : HMH
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547538383
Three novellas filled with “gallows humor and a sense of real peril,” by the acclaimed author of The Book of Strange New Things (The New York Times). The bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White “draws his characters with assured comic efficiency” (The Guardian), using “evocative language” to offer up “intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds” (Los Angeles Times), in these acclaimed novellas. In “The Courage Consort,” an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian château to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece, but competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In “The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,” a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. And in “The Fahrenheit Twins,” strange children, identical in all but gender, are left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents to create their own ritual civilization. From a wildly inventive author whose novel The Book of Strange New Things was named one of 2014’s best reads by everyone from the New Yorker to io9, The Courage Consort is an eclectic collection of well-told tales, in which Michel Faber “marches on, establishing himself as one of the most versatile fiction writers working today” (Kirkus Reviews). “Readers will again be immersed in the intense worlds he creates.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553418858
A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 141657316X
Documents the award-winning writer's experiences of living, working, and raising twin sons in Rome during the year following his receipt of a prestigious Rome Prize stipend, a period during which he attended the vigil of the dying John Paul II, brought his children on a snowy visit to the Pantheon, and befriended numerous locals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841959804
In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel 'The Crimson Petal and the White', briefly opening doors onto the lives of its characters to give us tantalising glimpses of where they sprang from and what happened to them.
Author : Vivienne Lewin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429922558
The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them. It explores our historical fascination with this subject and the origins of this excitement, how our perceptions of twins reflect our own longing for a perfect soul-mate, and the effect this personal projection has on the development in twins. It is a book written with the general reader in mind rather than "experts". Twins share a deep psychic bond that forms the core of their twinship, but they are never identical. Many factors will affect their development, including the early mutual resonances and sensate experiences between them, and parental and societal attitudes in raising them.
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743247221
Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780151013142
The bestselling author of "The Crimson Petal and the White" presents this collection of 16 stories that move from unspeakable sadness to moments of exquisitely distilled happiness.