My Father S Tears And Other Stories

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345513809

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My Father's Tears by John Updike Pdf

“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father’s Tears, the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes—Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity—in a gallery of portraits of his aging generation, men and women for whom making peace with the past is now paramount. The Seattle Times called My Father’s Tears “a haunting collection” that “echoes the melancholy of Chekhov, the romanticism of Wordsworth and the mournful spirit of Yeats.”

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307272027

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My Father's Tears by John Updike Pdf

A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139726

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European Perspectives on John Updike by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton Pdf

From his first book publication in 1958, the American writer John Updike attracted an international readership. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages, and he has always had a strong following in the United Kingdom and in Europe. Although Updike died in 2009, interest in his work remains strong among European scholars. No recent volume, however, collects diverse European views on Updike's oeuvre. The current book fills that void, presenting essays that perceive Updike's renditions of America through the eyes of scholar/readers from both Western and Eastern Europe--back cover.

Author : Frances Elizabeth Georgina Carey Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000550331

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My Father's Hand, and Other Stories and Allegories for the Young by Frances Elizabeth Georgina Carey Brock Pdf

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135117

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Becoming John Updike by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming John Updike pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response to his writings. Several things about Updike's career make a reception study appropriate. First, he was prolific: he began publishing fiction and essays in 1956, published his first book in 1958, and from then on, brought out at least one new book each year. Second, his books were reviewed widely - usually in major American newspapers and magazines, and often in foreign ones as well. Third, Updike quickly became a darling of academics; the first book about his work was published in 1967, less than a decade after his own first book. More than three dozen books and hundreds of articles of academic criticism have been devoted to Updike. The present volume will appeal to the continuing interest in Updike's writing among academics and general readers alike. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.

Author : Harriet S. Caswell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547205739

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The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Path of Duty, and Other Stories" by Harriet S. Caswell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Dominick Ricca
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453519691

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Jesus Was My Father and Other Stories by Dominick Ricca Pdf

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Author : Michael Cantwell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491704233

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Rosa?s Gift and Other Stories by Michael Cantwell Pdf

From a young writer trying to win a girl to a boy grappling with confusion about sin, each protagonist in this collection of nine short stories experiences a journey, an encounter, or a revelation that transforms them. In Rosa's Gift and Other Stories, author Michael Cantwell presents these stories reflecting the joys and sorrows of all stages of human life. In the title story, "Rosa's Gift," Peter Collins, a semiretired commercial artist from New York, visits Guatemala, where he studies Spanish. As he wanders around Antigua, he meets a teenage Mayan indigene, a little girl who sells trinkets to tourists. Peter is inspired to help her get an education. In doing so, he is forced to confront the extreme poverty of Mayan life. "Christmas in the Great Depression" tells the story of Philip Nason, a twelve-year-old boy who wants a bicycle for Christmas. Because of the Depression, his father explains a bicycle is something the family cannot afford. Phil responds by waging a campaign, drawing cartoons promoting his wish and posting them all over the house and on the windshield of his father's car. As Cantwell's characters receive insights that help them meet the challenges of life, he makes each personality and destination come alive, from Depression-era Detroit to a confessional in a dark church in a New England city to the streets of Havana.

Author : Mary Ann Lichacz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1928065147

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My Father's Store by Mary Ann Lichacz Pdf

Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307819543

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Sugar and Other Stories by A. S. Byatt Pdf

Collected in a single volume for the first time—an unforgettable book of short stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession that explores the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss, and the elaborate memories we construct against it. In this book of short fictions, A.S. Byatt compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder. "Byatt's stories display all her talents as a novelist, but spiced with an additional friskiness." —Evening Standard

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433082514260

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The Crucifix of Baden, and Other Stories, Original, Translated, and Selected by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cyril Wong
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789814615099

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Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories by Cyril Wong Pdf

Recommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information A woman learns of a friend’s illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories crossing intriguingly into creative autobiography.

Author : Hadassah Louis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781794831339

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Bow to Enter Heaven and Other Stories by Hadassah Louis Pdf

A collection of literary fiction exploring the fragility of dreams. Prodding, oh so careful, just how far one must bend their back to catch a glimpse of heaven. The book includes five short stories; Bikuna has no womb - a woman with no belly button has no friends. [Zimbiro] Chenda becomes Chanda - refugee hidden in plain sight. [Bow to Enter Heaven] Umweo is a taloned god - judge of the world's sins. [Umweo's Talon] Ntalwe feasts on flesh - gory dinners on a seabed of guilt. [Secrets of the Sea] Dane, king of rocks, longs for glittered valleys - fall he must, to know his place.[The Greylings Quest] All must bow to enter heaven. The short fiction stories have elements of fantasy and some draw on real life experiences. The adventure is at least 100 pages in length.

Author : Sŏn-jak Cho
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895818287

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The Preview and Other Stories by Sŏn-jak Cho Pdf

Cho Sun Jak is a prolific South Korean writer of many novels and short stories. Many of his works have been adapted successfully as TV dramas and films, but very few of his works have been available in English till now. He presents an honest and frank view of the reality behind the successful development of modern Korea, with humor and sensitivity. The well-known novella, "The Preview," depicts the Korean War through the eyes of a young boy, and the other stories in this collection reflect the aftermath of the war, the desperate lives of the poor, the corruption of moral values, and the pathos of the lives of good-hearted prostitutes. The translations capture well the atmosphere and values of the period in which the stories were written. Detailed notes clarify linguistic points and the social and cultural context.

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192836897

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First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Pdf

Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in one volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."