Eveningland

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189370

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Eveningland by Michael Knight Pdf

A New York Times Editors’ Choice short story collection hailed as “a fresh masterpiece of Southern fiction . . . touching, haunting and brilliant” (Dallas News). Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction, Michael Knight delivers a “deft and wonderful, wholly original” collection of interlinked stories set among the members of a Mobile, Alabama family in the years preceding a devastating hurricane (The New York Times Book Review). Grappling with dramas both epic and personal, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the “unspeakable misgivings of contentment,” Eveningland captures with perfect authenticity of place the ways in which ordinary life astounds us with its complexity. A teenaged girl with a taste for violence holds a burglar hostage in her house on New Year’s Eve; a middle-aged couple examines the intricacies of their marriage as they prepare to throw a party; and a real estate mogul in the throes of grief buys up all the property on an island only to be accused of madness by his daughters. These stories, infused with humor and pathos, excavate brilliantly the latent desires and motivations that drive life forward in “a luminous collection from a writer of the first rank” (Esquire).

Author : Pär Lagerkvist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008185368

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Evening Land by Pär Lagerkvist Pdf

Swedish and English on opposite pages.

Author : Theodora Elizabeth Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018602497

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Songs of the Evening-land; and Other Poems by Theodora Elizabeth Lynch Pdf

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575129832

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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley Pdf

One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time - and almost not recognized. Lord Byron's Novel is the story of a dying daughter's attempt to understand the famous father she longed for - and the young woman who, by learning the secret of Byron's manuscript and Ada's devotion, reconnects with her own father, driven from her life by a crime as terrible as any of which Byron himself was accused.

Author : Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525646334

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The Hero Next Door by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Pdf

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short-story collection--this one focused on exploring acts of bravery--featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Linda Sue Park (A Long Walk to Water), and many more. Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes teach martial arts. Others talk to ghosts. A few are inventors or soccer players. They're also sisters, neighbors, and friends. Because heroes come in many shapes and sizes. But they all have one thing in common: they make the world a better place. Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this vibrant anthology features thirteen acclaimed authors whose powerful and diverse voices show how small acts of kindness can save the day. So pay attention, because a hero could be right beside you. Or maybe the hero is you. AUTHORS INCLUDE: William Alexander, Joseph Bruchac, Lamar Giles, Mike Jung, Hena Khan, Juana Medina, Ellen Oh, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park and Anna Dobbin, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ronald L. Smith, Rita Williams-Garcia, and short-story contest winner Suma Subramaniam “As with the two previous anthologies from We Need Diverse Books, this collection admirably succeeds in making available to all readers a wider and more representative range of American voices and protagonists.” —The Washington Post

Author : Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195066340

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The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson Pdf

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Author : Mekeel McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015009036008

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The Going Under of the Evening Land by Mekeel McBride Pdf

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197061

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The Typist by Michael Knight Pdf

An American soldier works in post-surrender Japan in a novel “reminiscent of The English Patient . . . sad, wistful and romantic” (Los Angeles Times). When Francis Vancleave joins the army in 1944, he expects his term of service to pass uneventfully. His singular talent—typing ninety-five words a minute—keeps him off the battlefield and in General MacArthur’s busy Tokyo headquarters, where his days are filled with paperwork in triplicate and letters of dictation. But little does Van know that the first year of the occupation will prove far more volatile for him than for the US Army. When he’s bunked with a troubled combat veteran marketer and recruited to babysit MacArthur’s eight-year-old son, Van is suddenly tangled in the complex—and risky—personal lives of his compatriots. As he brushes shoulders with panpan girls and Communists on the streets of Tokyo, Van struggles to uphold his convictions in the face of unexpected conflict—especially the startling news from his war bride, a revelation that threatens Van with a kind of war wound he never anticipated. “Tells the story of generals, war, and occupation through the eyes of a typist who proves himself to be the calm at the center of the storm . . . [An] elegant, thoughtful, and resonant novel.” —Ann Patchett “A memorable read.” —Chicago Tribune

Author : Lin Ma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135908683

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Heidegger on East-West Dialogue by Lin Ma Pdf

This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heidegger’s thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the focus of a thorough and sustained investigation: that is, the emergence and course of Heidegger’s interest in East Asian thought and of his reflection on East-West dialogue. Lin Ma covers such complex issues as Heidegger’s thoughts on language, Being, technology, the other beginning, and the journey abroad, with a view to their implications for East-West dialogue. It reveals the significance of his remarks on the early Greek’s confrontation with the Asiatic, and presents contextualized interpretations of his fleeting references to the topic of East-West dialogue and of his encounter with the Daodejing. Finally, it delves into "A dialogue on language" and exposes the strains and tensions that accompany Heidegger’s extension of dialogue and the Same, the two notions central to his thought, to the question of East-West dialogue. In the end, Lin Ma concludes that Heidegger’s fundamental concerns and philosophical orientations as articulated in terms of the history of Being and the other beginning have restricted him from engaging more seriously with the irresolvable and yet enduring issue of East-West dialogue.

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219786

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Canary Fever by John Clute Pdf

Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the canary in the coal mine, who whiffs gas and dies to save miners; reviewers of fantastika can find themselves in a similar position, though words can only hurt us.

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062124043

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Little, Big by John Crowley Pdf

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802196996

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Divining Rod by Michael Knight Pdf

From “the lineage of . . . Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty” comes a prize-winning novel about crimes of passion in Alabama (San Francisco Chronicle). After the deaths of his parents, Simon Bell returns to his sleepy hometown of Sherwood, Alabama, hoping for a simple, quiet existence. But when he meets Delia Holladay one hot, unmoving summer day, latent needs and desires are suddenly awakened. Delia is young, beautiful, impulsive, and married. As their emotions deepen, the affair soon slips beyond their control, building to a final reckoning that will leave no one untouched. Evoking a medley of distinct voices, Michael Knight, “a writer of the first rank”, and winner of the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Excellence in Fiction, tells a richly layered tale of adultery, love, and murder (Esquire). “Every word in this deeply resonant novel is pure gold” as it follows the arc of one fateful romance to its inevitable and heartbreaking conclusion (The Washington Post Book World).

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802146304

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At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight Pdf

The award-winning author of Eveningland “combines a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story and a meditation on history in his engrossing latest novel” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). It’s 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she’s pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a “Technicolor simulacrum of American History” right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country. If successful, the development will forever alter the character of Prince William County, VA, and have unforeseeable consequences for the school. When the threat of the theme park begins to intrude on the lives of the faculty and students at Briarwood, secrets will be revealed and unexpected alliances will form. Lenore must decide whom she can trust—will it be a middle-aged history teacher struggling to find purpose in his humdrum life? A lonely basketball coach tasked with directing the school play? A reclusive playwright still grappling with her own Briarwood legacy? Or a teenage ghost equally adept at communicating with the living via telephone or Ouija board? Following a cast of memorable characters as they reckon with questions about fate, history, and the possibility of happiness, At Briarwood School for Girls is “an inventive coming of age tale” (Southern Living). “A stunning novel with a hint of the supernatural that’s sure to delight readers.”—Publishers Weekly “Irresistible and satisfying.”—Christine Schutt, author of Florida: A Novel

Author : Mary Eleanor Holmquist Saboe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510011439702

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Paradigm Change in Pär Lagerkvist's Crucifixion Pentalogy by Mary Eleanor Holmquist Saboe Pdf

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802140556

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Goodnight, Nobody by Michael Knight Pdf

A collection of stories by Michael Knight about rediscovered love, reconciliation, and peace amid the trials of everyday life.