Author : Adam Davies
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN :
Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?
Author : Adam Davies
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440624216
Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother’s guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from “locked-in syndrome,” a condition that leaves him fully intact mentally but unable to speak or move, save for blinking his eye. Jack’s do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family. But Jack’s no fool: He knows better—and he knows there’s a lot his girlfriend doesn’t realize about the Tennant family. She doesn’t know about Jack’s alcoholic brother, Pressman. And she doesn’t know the truth about his brother Dex, who drowned when Jack was very young—and about whom his parents have never said a word. With his family teetering on the brink, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to make a decision he’s avoided for years. Should he walk away from his past and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember? Jack has a lot of choices to make—and fast. If he doesn’t, he runs the risk of losing everything, including the woman he loves. “Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language.”—St. Petersburg Times
Author : Adam Davies
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594483141
A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon. Otto Starks is a "pulse"—a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar. Now, demoted and dangerously in debt to a loan shark, all he has left is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglar's zealous advocate. That's bad enough. But then Otto gets robbed yet again and the cops pronounce him the prime suspect. When Charlie disappears and Otto becomes a fugitive, he realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. And to get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding. Mine All Mine is a nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal, and ownership—in art and in love.
Author : Erin Vincent
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Bereavement in adolescence
ISBN : 0385733534
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she and her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Angel Favazza
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0359516815
Crossing Space is an arresting collection of science fiction poetry by best-selling author, Angel Favazza. Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Favazza fearlessly explores outer space and the human condition through her own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide from others and even ourselves. Favazza pushes the boundaries of traditional science fiction and can't keep herself from going right to those dark edges, whether she is writing about the entanglements of human life, the challenges of our place within the universe, or, as she so deftly does in several poems, both at once. The result is a poetry collection that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.
Author : Keith Lemon
Publisher : Orion
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 140915985X
Two Keith Lemon'sss for the price of one! And some! Have you ever wondered how Keith Lemon from telly got to where he is today? If not, no worries. If you have then you'll find all the answers in this double whammy of LITTLE KEITH LEMON and BEING KEITH, with extra brand new chapters! The star of CELEBRITY JUICE, THROUGH THE KEYHOLE and THE KEITH LEMON SKETCH SHOW shares his incredible journey so far - from flogging Rhino Jeans on Leeds market to winning Northern Businessman of the Year, wrestling 'little people' in Mexico and finding himself sandwiched between Holly Willoughbooby and Fearne 'Nostrils' Cotton on ITV2's CELEBRITY JUICE. None of that made up stuff on Wikipedia, this is the gospel! Plus in a Bang Tidy update you can find out what it's like to write a children's book, peer through Kerry Katona's keyhole and become a Kardashian . . . Told in his own words, with photographs and illustrations from the 'strawberry blond' one himself, KEITH LEMON'S BIG ONE is the true life story of an unbelievably good lookin' lad from Leeds who became a national treasure.
Author : Joshua Glenn
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1606995251
100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales. That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way. But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination? The founders of the Significant Objects project, that’s who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; you’ll never look at a thrift-store curiosity the same way again. FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES BY: Chris Adrian • Rob Agredo • Kurt Andersen • Rachel Axler • Rob Baedeker • Nicholson Baker • Rosecrans Baldwin • Matthew Battles • Charles Baxter • Kate Bernheimer • Susanna Breslin • Kevin Brockmeier • Matt Brown • Blake Butler • Meg Cabot • Tim Carvell • Patrick Cates • Dan Chaon • Susanna Daniel • Adam Davies • Kathryn Davis • Matthew De Abaitua • Stacey • D'Erasmo • Helen DeWitt • Doug Dorst • Mark Doty • Ben Ehrenreich • Mark Frauenfelder • Amy Fusselman • William Gibson • Myla Goldberg • Ben Greenman • Jason Grote • Jim Hanas • Jennifer Michael Hecht • Sheila Heti • Christine Hill • Dara Horn • Shelley Jackson • Heidi Julavits • Ben Katchor • Matt Klam • Wayne Koestenbaum • Josh Kramer • Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer • Neil LaBute • Victor LaValle • J. Robert Lennon • Jonathan Lethem • Todd Levin • Laura Lippman • Mimi Lipson • Robert Lopez • Joe Lyons • Sarah Manguso • Merrill Markoe • Tom McCarthy • Miranda Mellis • Lydia Millet • Maud Newton • Annie Nocenti • Stephen O’Connor • Stewart O’Nan • Jenny Offill • Gary Panter • Ed Park • James Parker • Benjamin Percy • Mark Jude Poirier • Padgett Powell • Bob Powers • Todd Pruzan • Dan Reines • Nathaniel Rich • Peter Rock • Lucinda Rosenfeld • Greg Rowland • Luc Sante • R.K. Scher • Toni Schlesinger • Matthew Sharpe • Jim Shepard • David Shields • Marisa Silver • Curtis Sittenfeld • Bruce Sterling • Scarlett Thomas • Jeff Turrentine • Deb Olin Unferth • Tom Vanderbilt • Matthew J. Wells • Joe Wenderoth • Margaret Wertheim • Colleen Werthmann • Colson Whitehead • Carl Wilson • Cintra Wilson • Sari Wilson • Douglas Wolk • John Wray
Author : Niccolò Ammaniti
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Italian crime writing is replacing that of Scandinavia as the fastest growing in the genre. The huge success of Niccolo Ammaniti, followed by the Gabriele Salvatore film of the same name took the UK by storm. Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalban series (Picador), Carlo Lucarelli's Almost Blue (Vintage) and carte Blanche (Europa) and Massimo Carlotto's The Good-bye Kiss (Europa) are further evidence of this surge. These authors, and others, are represented in this volume, which contains nine gripping and often darkly hilarious stories.
Author : R. Andrila
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1646786734
I dressed in black. I wore my red lipstick, neatly styled my hair to a bun, and walked to my college. I reached early as I took care of all the arrangements. I heard whispers and guys making noise nearby. I turned to check what that was about. It was him. He was in a grey suit. Grey and black, straightened hair, with shades on, he walked straight towards me. I was standing nearby the registration area, hearing my batchmates gossip about me, “He’s just nice to her ’cause she takes care of…” She had been reliving these memories in her head, over and over again. It’s like a high-resolution video that kept playing and she had no control over it. Her ugly, guilty, and an almost love story—Secret Goodbyes.
