Going For A Beer Selected Short Fictions

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393608472

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Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions by Robert Coover Pdf

“A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor.” —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book Review Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works.

Author : Lisa Moore
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770892552

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The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore by Lisa Moore Pdf

Collects short stories from the author's first two books, "Open" and "Degrees of Nakedness," as well as previously unpublished works.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141936932

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Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens Pdf

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. Impressionistic sketches combine imaginatively heightened travel journals with wry observations of home and abroad, while in his dramatic monologues, Dickens demonstrates his talent for exploring the secret workings of the human mind. These short works display Dickens's exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486810768

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Select Short Fiction by Charles Dickens Pdf

Known and loved around the world for his vast and sprawling novels, Charles Dickens relished the opportunity to experiment with his shorter writings, investigating hitherto unexplored themes and engaging in uncharacteristic narrative techniques. This anthology presents some of the beloved storyteller's lesser-known works, focusing on tales that reflect his fascination with the supernatural as well as his impressionistic sketches and dramatic monologues. The collection opens with "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," in which a gravedigger learns a lesson from mischievous spirits. Other ghostly tales include "The Baron of Grogzwig," "To Be Read at Dusk," and more. A selection of brief, atmospheric essays, most of them written for newspapers and magazines, recaptures vibrant scenes from Victorian London — its prisons, churches, schools, and street life — as well as episodes from the author's extensive travels. The book concludes with a series of dramatic monologues from Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions and other stories, all of them abounding in Dickens' distinctive wit and imaginative power.

Author : David Flynn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312876064

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More Selected Short Fiction by David Flynn Pdf

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802136672

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Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover Pdf

Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.

Author : Robin LeBlanc,Jordan St. John
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-20
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781459739307

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The Ontario Craft Beer Guide by Robin LeBlanc,Jordan St. John Pdf

An indispensable guide to the heady world of Ontario’s craft beer revival, the expanded second edition of The Ontario Craft Beer Guide adds nearly 100 outstanding new breweries. For newcomers and aficionados alike, experts Jordan St. John and Robin LeBlanc guide you through the booming craft beer scene to your new favourite pint.

Author : Karen Schrier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780359984015

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Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond by Karen Schrier Pdf

Have you ever wanted to know which games to use in your classroom, library, or afterschool program, or even at home? Which games can help teach preschoolers, K-12, college students, or adults? What can you use for science, literature, or critical thinking skills? This book explores 100 different games and how educators have used the games to teach - what worked and didn't work and their tips and techniques. The list of 100 goes from A to Z Safari to Zoombinis, and includes popular games like Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Minecraft, as well as PC, mobile, VR, AR, card and board games.

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473216372

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Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds Pdf

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944869719

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The Cat in the Hat for President by Robert Coover Pdf

Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on his success) makes for a bitterly funny indictment of politics-as-usual in 2017.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058132104

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Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant Pdf

The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free.

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802136664

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Ghost Town by Robert Coover Pdf

A parody of the western novel featuring a hero who drifts into town to become both sheriff and outlaw. All the elements of the genre are present, from train robbery and runaway stagecoach, to cattle stampede. By the author of The Public Burning.

Author : Roger F. Kennedy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456886721

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Collected Short Fiction by Roger F. Kennedy Pdf

The Collected Short Fiction of Roger F. Kennedy now appears in a two book set Volumes 1 and 2 Volume 1 comprises 27 newly edited stories from The Windup Man and Lauri with an i. Volume 2 includes 24 newly edited stories from The Three of us and Mirror Image. Kennedys ironic imagination and wit shine through with fast-moving plot lines and dead-on dialogue in the time-honored tradition of pulp fiction.

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307594020

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Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul by V. S. Naipaul Pdf

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize– winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.

Author : Heike Bauer,Andrea Greenbaum,Sarah Lightman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780815655657

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Jewish Women in Comics by Heike Bauer,Andrea Greenbaum,Sarah Lightman Pdf

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a light on the significant contributions of Jewish women to comics. The volume features established figures including Emil Ferris, Amy Kurzweil, Miriam Libicki, Trina Robbins, Sharon Rudahl, and Ilana Zeffren, alongside works by artists translated for the first time into English, such as artist Rona Mor. Exploring topics of family, motherhood, miscarriages, queerness, gender and Judaism, illness, war, Haredi and Orthodox family life, and the lingering impact of the Holocaust, the contributors present unique, at times intensely personal, insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification. In doing so, the volume deepens our understanding of Jewish women’s experiences.