Ploughshares Fall, 1998
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277236
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277236
Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277205
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400043794
From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member.Her name is Lanlan. She is Carnegie’s Mainland Chinese relative, a tough, surprisingly lovely survivor of the Cultural Revolution, who comes courtesy of Carnegie’s mother’s will. Is Lanlan a very good nanny, a heartless climber, or a posthumous gift from a formidable mother who never stopped wanting her son to marry a nice Chinese girl? Rich in insight, buoyed by humor, The Love Wife is a hugely satisfying work.
Author : Jane Shore
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780933277212
Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780933277267
Author : Thomas Lux
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277243
Author : Joyce Maynard
Publisher : Picador
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429977558
New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day With a New Preface When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later—having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own—Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.
Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780933277229
Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480457213
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he’s never met, especially disconnected from other Indians. After he runs away from his latest foster home, he makes a new friend. Handsome, charismatic, and eloquent, Justice soon persuades Zits to unleash his pain and anger on the uncaring world. But picking up a gun leads Zits on an unexpected time-traveling journey through several violent moments in American history, experiencing life as an FBI agent during the civil rights movement, a mute Indian boy during the Battle of Little Bighorn, a nineteenth-century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airplane pilot. When Zits finally returns to his own body, “he begins to understand what it means to be the hero, the villain and the victim. . . . Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters, leaving this reader with tears in her eyes” (The New York Times Book Review). Sherman Alexie’s acclaimed novels have turned a spotlight on the unique experiences of modern-day Native Americans, and here, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian takes a bold new turn, combining magical realism with his singular humor and insight. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Sherman Alexie including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN :