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Last Stories and Other Stories

William T. Vollmann

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698135482

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Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann Pdf

Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

One More Thing

B. J. Novak

Author : B. J. Novak
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385351843

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One More Thing by B. J. Novak Pdf

New York Times Bestseller A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as “a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of winning that rare thing: unselfconscious, insuppressible laughter” (The Washington Post). A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.

The Deal of a Lifetime

Fredrik Backman

Author : Fredrik Backman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781501193491

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The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman Pdf

It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.

A Book that was Lost and Other Stories

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002610951

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A Book that was Lost and Other Stories by Shmuel Yosef Agnon Pdf

Twenty-two stories by a Jewish writer. The story, The Sign, is on his vanished Polish village, Between Two Towns is on the complacency of German Jews prior to the holocaust, and Hill of Sand is on his early years in Palestine.

Lust

Susan Minot

Author : Susan Minot
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453202982

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Lust by Susan Minot Pdf

DIV DIVDIVTwelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan/divDIV /div/divDIVFor the twelve narrators of Susan Minot’s breathtaking collection—artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings—love in New York doesn’t come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. /divDIV /divDIVIn intense snapshots of these women’s most intimate moments, Minot brings to life their dreams and disappointments, hopes and heartbreaks, and highlights the emotional fissures that divide women and men./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of Susan Minot, including artwork by the author and rare documents and photos from her personal collection./div /div

Orange World and Other Stories

Karen Russell

Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525656142

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Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell Pdf

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

The Last Tortilla & Other Stories

Sergio Troncoso

Author : Sergio Troncoso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816519613

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The Last Tortilla & Other Stories by Sergio Troncoso Pdf

An anthology of stories on Mexican-Americans. One deals with the gulf between Anglo and Latin cultures, another is a romance between an older woman and a younger man, a third is on a boy's satisfaction with a job well done.

The Truth and Other Stories

Stanislaw Lem

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262366656

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The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem Pdf

Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241337790

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Last Stories by William Trevor Pdf

*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth Strout In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers. 'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel 'He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov' John Banville 'The greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' New Yorker

The Power of Horses and Other Stories

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Author : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816525501

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The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Pdf

The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-LynnÕs people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor. In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota country, Joseph grieves that the body of his middle son will never be returned to his native shores from the distant World War I battlefields where he was killed; family members gather to bury their father and barely survive their own weaknesses and bickering; a grandmother takes her grandchild for a walk and imparts to the child some of the old wisdom of times past; a whining hound dogÑprimordial to the DakotaÑcompetes unwittingly with Reverend TilestonÕs efforts to bring the word of the Christian God to a tight-knit family, and wins; Magpie is a poet but is also on parole, and just as his friends have begun to rethink the finality of justice, he is ÒaccidentallyÓ shot and killed in the white manÕs jail. Cook-Lynn writes unsparingly yet compassionately of reservation life in the last century. In each of these gemlike stories she reveals something of the mystery and essential toughness of the Dakota people.

The Last Dance and Other Stories

Victoria Hislop

Author : Victoria Hislop
Publisher : Headline
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472201898

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The Last Dance and Other Stories by Victoria Hislop Pdf

'Lyrical, twisty short stories' Evening Standard A collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling brothers, and from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music and memory. These bittersweet tales of love and loyalty, of separation and reconciliation, captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice, will stay with you long after you reach the end. Praise for The Last Dance and Other Stories. . . 'A master at evoking a sense of place' Mail on Sunday 'Stunning... Intricate, beautifully observed' Express 'Beguiling... her characters are utterly convincing' Daily Mail 'A vivid portrait of a country in upheaval' Tatler

Skin and Other Stories

Roald Dahl

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101636305

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Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl Pdf

How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million dollars? You will discover that just about anything is possible in a Roald Dahl story, and here are eleven of his very best.

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories

Robert Walser

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681370170

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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser Pdf

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser’s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser’s life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. Together they string together small nutshells of consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. The portraits and landscapes here are observed with tenderness and from a place of great anxiety. Some dwell on childish or transient topics—carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book—others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood—and all of the danger. Walser’s speakers are attuned to the silent music of being; students of the ineffable and neighbors to madness, they are now exhilarated, now paralyzed by frequencies inaudible to less sensitive ears.

Chameleon & Other Stories

William Gerald Schermbrucker

Author : William Gerald Schermbrucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012341405

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Chameleon & Other Stories by William Gerald Schermbrucker Pdf

A collection of short stories about a young man growing up in Kenya during the time of Mau Mau.

Last Stories And Other Stories