Book Description
Short stories of ordinary lives with delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada.
Author : Pamela Mordecai
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2009-11-07
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1897414234
Short stories of ordinary lives with delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811201179
Nine short stories by the Japanese literary genius provide insights into the struggles and problems of his contemporary countrymen.
Author : Desmond Hogan
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564789802
There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape—distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern.
Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775530256
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.
Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451618476
One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
Author : John Flanagan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387936026
A collection of 11 short stories with settings in Ireland, the English countryside, the Middle East, New York City, Bangkok and in the 'fantastic' country of Ambrosia. Adult fiction but not salacious or gratuitously erotic portraying the lives and loves, needs, wants, disappointments and fantasies of a wide range of characters.
Author : Breton Dukes
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0864739974
Empty Bones is weightlifting, infidelity, drunk driving, facelifts and childbirth it s a family and their weekend reunion. It is Lisbon to Madrid on the night train and Auckland to Wellington on a motorbike. It is the end, the beginning and the gristly in between. Empty Bones is a novella accompanied by five equally raw, intense and comical short stories, from the author of the acclaimed Bird North. Wow. Breton Dukes BIRD NORTH is a knockout. Brilliantly intense book. Emily Perkins, Twitter Roddy Doyle is a hard act to follow, but in Bird North New Zealand author Breton Dukes does it with a gritty and sometimes disturbing collection of stories. Ian Williams, Otago Daily Times Confidant, nuanced and unselfconsciously local, this is an accomplished debut. Sam Finnemore, NZ Listener Breton Dukes lives with his wife in Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. He is a telephonist for the government. His interests include rabbit shooting, tenting and cookery. Cover: Dylan Horrocks"
Author : Edith Townsend Everett
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773582134
Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387018460
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.