Pond Life And Other Stories

Author : Sam Kates
Publisher : Sam Kates
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912718153

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Pond Life and Other Stories by Sam Kates Pdf

A deadly infatuation. Apocalypse. A haunted hotel. These are what you'll meet if you dare to venture inside. How would you react if you came across someone who claimed he caused the end of humankind? This is the question Jake must answer in The Third Coming, the story that spawned the Earth Haven trilogy. Would you dive into a pond that will alter you fundamentally? What if you are on a beach at Dunkirk, already facing near-certain death, when you look into the eyes of true evil? Try to avoid the Obsessives' Club—it's not somewhere you want to stay. Encounter a novel way of dealing with antisocial behaviour, a condemned prisoner who's convinced that she's Dorothy Gale, and a daring but brutal escape from a Siberian prison camp. Then there's a girl who claims she can fly, not to mention a ghost, maybe two. Ten stories of the macabre and the wondrous and the seemingly mundane… until you scratch beneath the surface.

Author : Rummana Chowdhury
Publisher : Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771337974

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Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by Rummana Chowdhury Pdf

Winner, 2022 IPPY Bronze Medal for Multicultural Fiction; Finalist, International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. In Dusk in the Frog Pond, Rummana Chowdhury presents new narratives about the lived realities of Muslim women as they navigate life, be it in Bangladesh, on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto or along the riotous waves of the Atlantic in New York. These eight powerful stories follow a series of intrepid Bangladeshi women as they confront the issues of migration, displacement, nostalgia, cultural assimilation, marriage and-above all-identity and loneliness. Despite the challenges facing them, these compelling characters seek out happiness, whether in arranged marriages, romantic relationships or in shaping their individual destinies. Each tale is a depiction of the tensions, active as well as simmering, between culture, tradition and history and the modern world. The collection is a compendium of both joy and sorrow, never forgetting the eternally burning fire of hope that lives and dies within all of us.

Author : George K. Reid
Publisher : Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466864801

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Pond Life by George K. Reid Pdf

This eBook is best viewed on a color device. This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community. Plus suggestions for: Where and when to look Observing and collecting specimens Making exciting discoveries

Author : Al Alvarez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408841013

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Pondlife by Al Alvarez Pdf

From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and fierce honesty – from his relentlessly nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person's Blue Badge, the devastating effects of a stroke, and the salvation he finds in the three Ss – Swimming, Sex and Sleep. As Alvarez swims in the ponds he considers how it feels when you begin to miss that person you used to be – to miss yourself. Swimming is his own private form of protest against the onslaught of time; proof to others, and himself, that he's not yet beaten. By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night. _____________________ 'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times 'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times 'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing – its success is against the odds' Observer

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781984856043

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Author : Claire-Louise Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399575914

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Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Pdf

“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.

Author : Hiller Goodspeed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734324724

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Pond Life by Hiller Goodspeed Pdf

Author : Carol Dembicki,Matt Dembicki
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616089672

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Mr. Big by Carol Dembicki,Matt Dembicki Pdf

Pond dwellers make a plan to rid the pond of the destructive snapping turtle, but what does that mean for the delicate balance of the pond's ecosystem, especially when a new and more vicious predator is found lurking in the deep? Original.

Author : Henry J. Slack
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368127800

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Marvels of Pond-Life by Henry J. Slack Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author : Barbara Taylor
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Desert animals
ISBN : 0789429705

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Pond Life by Barbara Taylor Pdf

Examines the variety of life found in a pond, including great diving beetles, frogs, and newts.

Author : Al James
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326383725

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GRANDAD’S EYE: and other stories by Al James Pdf

Chance encounters and life changing events are at the heart of these 19 stories. Paul believes he will never recover from the death of his wife until he meets one of her former friends. Despite his daughters' anxieties, a relationship begins to develop. The grandfather in the title story reluctantly tells his grandson how he lost an eye in the battle of the Somme. A soldier involved in the D. Day landings makes a promise to his friend. Grace, living in a residential home, struggles to separate present from past experience. All the stories in this collection draw you into the lives and emotions of those involved and make you want to keep reading. "That eye, boy . . . it tells a story." "It's staring up at me from the bottom of the glass. Through the water. I look up at him, at the empty socket the eye occupies every day. Like part of the right hand side of his head has been scooped out. t doesn't scare me. I've never known him any different."

Author : Denise Fleming
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805022643

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In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming Pdf

In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.

Author : Sam Kates
Publisher : Sam Kates
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912718191

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Moths by Sam Kates Pdf

A collection of three dark novellas that delve into the nature of memory, madness and the afterlife. The Goldfish Syndrome: a mystery takes a sinister turn—some secrets are best left undiscovered… Moths: when the line between reality and fantasy grows blurred, tragedy beckons. Returned: a soul dragged from the afterlife, an ancient secret and a race against time to thwart evil.

Author : Andrew Rees
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781524682866

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Oburoni and Other Stories by Andrew Rees Pdf

Oburoni symbolises the sense of individuality, of being different, and yet warmly accepted. So it is for John in a land far away from home. This sense of change pervades Brian and Pats new home, Trishs search for a job, and Toms purchase, while Johns reflections on his life are echoed by Sonia on her long journey and the students first assignment. Life involves family, whether watching a favourite TV program, welcoming long-lost relatives, or seeking a beloved son. All of which form the ingredients of these tales, with their different themes and backgrounds, peaking in the joy of New Year celebrations.

Author : Bonnie Worth
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375828836

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Would You Rather Be a Pollywog by Bonnie Worth Pdf

Cats normally don't like water, but the Cat in the Hat is no normal puss! He’s fond of ponds, and in this latest Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library book, he takes Sally and Dick on a trip to show them how ponds are fascinating places teeming with life. From algae to snails, leeches, insects, fish, frogs, newts, turtles, ducks, swans, and more, the Cat explains how all different kinds of plants and animals make their home in and around ponds, as well as examining the difference between complete and incomplete metamorphosis and the various stages of frog development. Ideal for spring and summer reading, this is a beginning reader that will inspire kids to get outside and explore!