Survival and Other Stories
Author : S. P. Singha
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Short stories, Bengali
ISBN : 9788125045106
Author : S. P. Singha
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Short stories, Bengali
ISBN : 9788125045106
Author : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
These are stories about strong women: survivors that include professionals or professional whores, writers, educators, counselors and curanderas, the bewitched and the bewitchers. The title story and its description of the sexual abuse of a young girl by her stepfather will make it clear that this work treats outrages as well as mysteries, and the reader will come to learn that a part of surviving is to begin to understand outrageous humanity.
Author : Judith Merril
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN :
Author : Tim O'Shei
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736864374
"Describes 10 of the world's most amazing survival stories in a countdown format"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Pam Durban
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820317755
The seven stories in Pam Durban's widely praised debut collection are tales of family, of love and loss, of survival and affirmation. Durban's resonant prose subtly obliges her readers to experience the rush of icy water in a stream, the taste of greens freshly snatched from an overgrown garden, the dread weight of confusion and uncertainty. In "This Heat," the opening story, a mill worker faces the long-expected loss of her teenage son when his weak heart finally gives out. In the title story, which concludes the collection, a formidably eccentric woman abruptly leaves her daughter and granddaughter to answer a "calling" to do missionary work in Africa. Framed between these two stories is a gathering of characters made real and consequential by Durban's touch: a country singer more than a few big breaks short of stardom, a preadolescent boy lovestruck over his private swimming instructor, a father cut off from his children by haunting war memories, and others.
Author : Clint Willis
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 9781840183160
Wild brings together writings about men and women fighting for their lives in the wilderness, from Jon Krakauer's article on which he based his best-seller Into the Wild, to Carl R. Raswan's account of surviving raids, droughts, and sandstorms in the desert with the Bedouins. Other accounts include: Philipe Descola telling of life with an isolated tribe of headhunters; Edward Abbey on the hazards of trying to navigate the Southwest canyons; Bill Bryson describing his life-threatening adventures along the Appalachian Trail; and Sheila Nickerson on the survivors of family and friends lost to the wilderness.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1620876655
This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are: Ernest Shackleton Douglas Mawson Salomon Andrée Sebastian Snow Ed Drummond Edmund Hillary Maurice Herzog Lewis and Clark Thor Heyerdahl Theodore Roosevelt Jacques Cousteau Sven Hedin Norbert Casteret Jim Corbett Charles A. Lindbergh The Best Survival Stories Ever Told recounts stories of ordinary mortals who achieved extraordinary things. Spanning the ice-locked Poles and the endless deserts of Arabia to the storm-tossed South Atlantic, the rain forests of the Amazon, and sheer peaks of the Himalayas, it charts the dangerous relationship between men and nature.
Author : Yanick Lahens
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Short stories, Haitian
ISBN : 9780813929002
The men and women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. "The Survivors" unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship and, centered on a group of men who dream of somehow striking out against the regime, shows how fear is passed down from generation to generation. Life is no simpler in the post-Duvalier world of the title story, in which a young man is caught between a mother who lives a devout life filled with self-imposed restrictions and an exuberant Vodouist aunt who makes no apologies for working in the black market. The twelve-year-old girl who narrates "Madness Had Come with the Rain" finds herself swept up in a violent riot following the death of a modern Robin Hood. Lahens' women, although they may act as the poto mitan (or "central pole") in family life and society, experience a particularly grim fate. In the eviction tale "And All This Unease" a beautiful girl reminisces about her happy childhood in the country in order to forget her current life as a prostitute.
Author : Chŏnghŭi O
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 023150411X
O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf. These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first published work, in 1968, to one of her last publications, in 1994. Her early stories are compact, often chilling accounts of family dysfunction, reflecting the decline of traditional, agrarian economics and the rise of urban, industrial living. Later stories are more expansive, weaving eloquent, occasionally wistful reflections on lost love and tradition together with provocative explorations of sexuality and gender. O Chonghui makes use of flashbacks, interior monologues, and stream-of-consciousness in her narratives, developing themes of abandonment and loneliness in a carefully cultivated, dispassionate tone. O Chonghui's narrators stand in for the average individual, struggling to cope with emotional rootlessness and a yearning for permanence in family and society. Arguably the first female Korean fiction writer to follow Woolf's dictum to do away with the egoless, self-sacrificing "angel in the house," O Chonghui is a crucial figure in the history of modern Korean literature, one of the most astute observers of Korean society and the place of tradition within it.
Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982134038
From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.