Never Love A Gambler New Directions Pearls

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222952

Get Book

Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) by Keith Ridgway Pdf

Marvelous stories by the Irish writer acclaimed by Zadie Smith as “idiosyncratic and fascinating” Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as “flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose.” Ridgway’s characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery — brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222945

Get Book

Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) by Keith Ridgway Pdf

In 'Never Love a Gambler,' the Irish writer Keith Ridgway flips conventional narrative with unconventional drama. His charcters negotiate their way through love and lust, religious obsession and ghost sightings, crimes and disappearance in stories told with innovative mastery and brightened by fiercely vivid dialogue. Here, Ridgway showcases his brilliance as a bracing and violently funny storyteller.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Argentinian fiction
ISBN : 0811221105

Get Book

Never Love a Gambler by Keith Ridgway Pdf

Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as "flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose." Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery -- brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225700

Get Book

Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) by Enrique Vila-Matas Pdf

A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811230865

Get Book

A Shock by Keith Ridgway Pdf

Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…

Author : Tommaso Landolfi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200809

Get Book

Gogol's Wife & Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi Pdf

Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique--and fascinating--art. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony.

Author : Leonid Tsypkin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811215482

Get Book

Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Pdf

The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221672

Get Book

Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway Pdf

A mind-blowing adventure into a literary fourth dimension: part noir, part London snapshot, all unsettlingly amazing Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081120586X

Get Book

My Argument with the Gestapo by Thomas Merton Pdf

Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived--perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032779

Get Book

Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357318

Get Book

Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190608

Get Book

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015079892702

Get Book

Short Story Index: 1969-1973 by Anonim Pdf

Author : NOFX,Jeff Alulis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306824784

Get Book

NOFX by NOFX,Jeff Alulis Pdf

The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own words NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Alongside hilarious anecdotes about pranks and drunkenness and teenage failures-featuring the trademark NOFX sense of humor-the book also shares the ugliness and horror the band members experienced on the road to becoming DIY millionaires. Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and pee...lots and lots of pee. Told by each of the band members (and two former members), NOFX looks back at more than thirty years of comedy, tragedy, and completely inexplicable success.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387092752

Get Book

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.