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Butcher's Crossing

John Williams
Butcher s Crossing Book PDF

Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174241

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Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349)

John Williams
John Williams Collected Novels LOA 349 Book PDF

Author : John Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598537024

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John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349) by John Williams Pdf

For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner. John Williams’s three major works have come to be recognized as modern American classics and are collected in this Library of America volume for the first time. In Butcher’s Crossing, he unsettles the conventions of the Western novel to tell the haunting story of a buffalo hunting expedition that exposes the savagery and greed behind the myth of the frontier. In Stoner, he portrays power politics in academe and the quiet heroism of a midwestern English professor dedicated to the honest and dogged pursuit of his craft. In Augustus, set in ancient Rome, Williams again takes on the subject of power—more particularly, in the author’s own words, “the ambivalence between the public necessity and the private want or need.” Rounding out the volume are three essays by Williams on writing fiction and his speech upon accepting the National Book Award for Augustus in 1973.

The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

Charles J. Shields
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Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477320105

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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel by Charles J. Shields Pdf

This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.

Hard Rain Falling

Don Carpenter
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Author : Don Carpenter
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590173909

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Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter Pdf

Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

The Alpha-Nina

M.K. Williams
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Author : M.K. Williams
Publisher : M.K. Williams Publishing, LLC
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781733392990

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The Alpha-Nina by M.K. Williams Pdf

Continue the time-travel adventure series from M.K. Williams and cross back over the Plain with The Alpha-Nina There is no such thing as a coincidence in an infinite multiverse. Each action happens, it is inevitable. It was bound to occur, somewhere, sometime. Or, more elegantly put: It is destiny. While Nina Marks may have found her way back home after being kidnapped across the multiverse, her alter-egos are now in danger. The technology needed to travel the multiverse exists in at least 4 known universes, and perhaps more. How can Nina, now stuck in Universe Alpha keep all the infinite universes safe from those looking to exploit this technology? And, if the weight of protecting parallel universes wasn’t enough on her shoulders, she is the primary suspect in the disappearance of Dr. Parker Lovett. Can Nina exonerate herself without exposing the secrets of The Portal? Can she trust her alter-egos to keep watch on their entry point to the multiverse? Can she just get through the first week at her new job without having to worry about the fate of all people living across the infinite universes? Read The Alpha-Nina, the second book in The Feminina Series, and the anxiously awaited sequel to The Infinite-Infinite to find out.

Warlock

Oakley Hall
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Author : Oakley Hall
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178232

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Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. "Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with—the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power—the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." —Thomas Pynchon

Nothing But the Night

John Williams
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Author : John Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1557281130

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First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' career as a novelist--a career that would go on to include the classics Stoner and the National Book Award winning Augustus. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience. As a child, Maxley witnessed a scene of such violence and of such a nature tat the evocation of Greek tragedy is inescapable. now, years later, we move through a single significant day in the grown Arthur Maxley's life, the day when he is to meet his father, who has been absent for many years. With rare economy and clarity, the story moves at an ever-increasing pace to its unforgettable end.

Judas

Amos Oz
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Author : Amos Oz
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544547452

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is one of Amos Oz’s most powerful novels. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. “[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.”—New York Times Book Review “Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.”—Observer “Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.”—Forward “A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking.”—Times (UK)

Augustus

John Williams
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Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178218

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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.

The Invention of Sound

Chuck Palahniuk
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Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538717998

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A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she's become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real. Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers -- his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.

The Chronology of Water

Lidia Yuknavitch
The Chronology of Water Book PDF

Author : Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983304906

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The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Pdf

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.

Shane

Jack Schaefer
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Author : Jack Schaefer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 0395941164

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Shane by Jack Schaefer Pdf

Shane rides into the valley where Bob Starrett's family lives, and Bob, 15, tells about Shane's winning ways.

The Delicate Prey

Paul Bowles
The Delicate Prey Book PDF

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062119346

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Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories, now available in a a deluxe paperback edition—part of Ecco’s Art of the Story series “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).

Swag

Elmore Leonard
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Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062268860

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Swag by Elmore Leonard Pdf

The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick—all of them involving guns—and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken, if one is to succeed in the world of crime, especially if the "brains" of the operation knows less than nothing.

Masterpiece Comics

R. Sikoryak
Masterpiece Comics Book PDF

Author : R. Sikoryak
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1897299842

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Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak Pdf

HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICS Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus's Stranger becomes a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero comics, kid cartoons, and more. Sikoryak's classics have appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and Drawn & Quarterly, all of which are collected in Masterpiece Comics, along with brilliant new graphic literary satires. His drawings have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as in The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and Nickelodeon Magazine.