Novel Voices

Author : F. R. Tallis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230770539

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The Voices by F. R. Tallis Pdf

From F. R. Tallis, the highly-acclaimed author of the Vienna Blood series, comes the spine-chilling psychological thriller, The Voices. Once you've heard them, you'll never forget them . . . In the scorching summer of 1976 – the hottest since records began – Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices . . .

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811231015

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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg Pdf

From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”

Author : Hoda Barakat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300255263

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Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat Pdf

"Six strangers. Six letters. A chain of dark confessions, none of which reaches the intended recipient. Over the course of one hundred profound and disturbing pages, The Night Post tells the story of characters living on the periphery, battling with devastating poverty, fighting their own demons. Set in an unnamed country torn apart by war, the six characters at the heart of this tale are compelled to share their most personal secrets. This outstanding novella addresses some of the defining issues of our age: migration, conflict and exploitation. From one of today's most talented Arabic writers, The Night Post forces the reader to ask whether, in an oppressively connected world, we are drifting ever further apart."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ansul (Imaginary places)
ISBN : 9780152056780

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Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534453579

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The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley Pdf

An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights) historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves. As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly an unusual sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…​ She cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t. To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is. If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.

Author : Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429963404

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Voices by Arnaldur Indridason Pdf

Arnaldur Indridason took the international crime fiction scene by storm after winning England's CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. Now, with the highly anticipated Voices, this world-class sensation treats American readers to another extraordinary Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson thriller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed, and Erlendur and his detective colleagues have no shortage of suspects between hotel staff and the international travelers staying for the holidays. But then a shocking secret surfaces. As Christmas Day approaches, Erlendur must deal with his difficult daughter, pursue a possible romantic interest, and untangle a long-buried web of malice and greed to find the murderer. One of Indridason's most accomplished works to date, Voices is sure to win him a multitude of new American suspense fans.

Author : Ulli Lust
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781681371061

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Voices in the Dark by Ulli Lust Pdf

Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations—the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear—and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to Party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her... Based on an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life appeared in English in 2013. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece. This NYRC edition is a trade paperback and features full color throughout and new English hand-lettering.

Author : Beatrice Sparks
Publisher : Crown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X000634944

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Voices by Beatrice Sparks Pdf

Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780893702434

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Science Fiction Voices by Jeffrey M. Elliot Pdf

Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews five writers of science fiction: Jerry Pournelle, Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, Gregory Benford, and Richard A. Lupoff. With an introduction by A. E. van Vogt.

Author : Per Krogh Hansen,Stefan Iversen,Henrik Skov Nielsen,Rolf Reitan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110268645

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Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction by Per Krogh Hansen,Stefan Iversen,Henrik Skov Nielsen,Rolf Reitan Pdf

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable. During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance. This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

Author : Rita Guibert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101872482

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Seven Voices by Rita Guibert Pdf

In-depth and personal interviews by Rita Guibert of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Pablo Neruda in 1971, Miguel Angel Asturias in 1967, Octavio Paz in 1990 and Gabriel García Márquez in 1982.

Author : Armelle Blin-Rolland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351577533

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Adapted Voices by Armelle Blin-Rolland Pdf

Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le metro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language. Since their publication they have been adapted into a broad range of media, including illustrated novel, bande dessinee, film, stage performance and recorded reading. What happens to their striking literary voices as they are transposed into media that combine text and image, sound and image, or consist of sound alone? In this study, Armelle Blin-Rolland examines adaptations sparked by these two seminal novels to understand what 'voice' means in each medium, and its importance in the process of adaptation.

Author : Jennifer Levasseur,Kevin Rabalais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015057638960

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Novel Voices by Jennifer Levasseur,Kevin Rabalais Pdf

This collection provides a rare glimpse into the writing lives of 15 contemporary authors, including Charles Baxter, Elizabeth McCracken, and Charles Johnson. How-to sidebars on improving prose and breaking into publishing guide readers in getting a jump start on publication.

Author : Michael Kobre
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820321400

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Walker Percy's Voices by Michael Kobre Pdf

Walker Percy's novels are fraught with characters struggling toward a destiny and purpose in life who must sort through conflicting inner voices and the voices of family, friends, therapists, and mentors until they finally find their own paths. Through trial, error, and retrial, Percy's characters continuously reinvent themselves, struggling until they reach solutions, satisfaction, and maturity. In this multifaceted work, Michael Kobre analyzes Walker Percy's major fiction works--The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome--in terms of the Russian philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin's critical theory. Kobre begins with an introduction to Percy's view of language and consciousness and a clear, accessible explanation of Bakhtin's ideas. His subsequent discussion of the novels connects each work in turn with Percy's advancing career and explores the deepening conflict in Percy's fiction between his desire to express his own religious and moral beliefs and his commitment to the essential freedom of his art--the play of many voices in his narratives.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773524941

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Voices in Time by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

In 2030, an old man who has survived the holocaustic destruction of civilization in the 1980's illuminates the events of the past by portraying the lives of his cousin, a journalist during the 1970 war measures act, and his stepfather, a German caught up in the madness of the Hitler era.